HIV/AIDS Training Programs
The knowledge and medication to treat children with HIV/AIDS is readily available – in the United States. But in many countries around the world, even if the precious antiretroviral medications (ARVs) are available, it takes training and skill to know how to administer and monitor those drugs.
In keeping with its mission to build local capacity, WWO not only to treats orphans with HIV/AIDS, but we train in-country healthcare providers in the use of ARVs.
In 2004, with a grant from the Bristol Myers-Squibb Foundation, WWO sent a volunteer team of doctors and nurses affiliated with Columbia University to Vietnam. There they conducted the first-ever training of 26 Vietnamese healthcare professionals on the treatment of children with HIV/AIDS.
Two more training sessions and continued collaboration with their Vietnamese counterparts ensure that our children with HIV/AIDS are receiving excellent care.
In 2005, the volunteer team conducted a similar training session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as WWO began to import medications and treat orphaned children there for HIV/AIDS. A follow-up session the next year enabled Ethiopian pediatricians to return to their communities confident in their abilities to administer the life-saving ARVs.
Here in the US, Dr. Philip LaRussa and the medical professionals at Columbia’s pediatric HIV clinic continue to review each patient’s chart quarterly, and update treatment recommendations.
"We are creating a positive institution in a land of tremendous need. We are helping children who are unable to help themselves and have been forgotten by the rest of the world. We are doing the right thing at a time when there is no time for anything else." -Meade Barlow
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