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| HIV/AIDS TRAINING With funding provided by Miller Brewing Company, the Center for International Health partnered with the Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK) and convened a series of pediatric-focused HIV/AIDS teaching/training seminars for CHAK related health professionals. Trainees came from CHAK facilities throughout Kenya, and consisted of physicians, nurses, clinical officers and pharmacists. Seminar faculty included senior Kenyan pediatric HIV/AIDS specialists Ruth Nduati,MD; Sidney Nesbitt, MD; Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, MD and Joseph Mbuthia, MD.U.S. HIV/AIDS specialist Peter Havens, MD attended as an observer. Dr. Havens, in collaboration with the Kenyan faculty who presented the Nairobi training seminar and international pediatric HIV/AIDS specialists from around the world, expanded a World Health organization document originally written by Diana Gibb, MD (London) and facilitated the development of an advocacy/policy statement entitled "Increasing Antiretroviral Drug Access for Children with HIV infection," which has been endorsed by pediatric associations and academies around the world, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization. |
| FOOD RELIEF Our IFRP programs have been in the Republics of Georgia, Armenia, Kenya and Zambia. The targeted populations we have worked with in these countries have included orphans and vulnerable children, the elderly, rural poor, people living with HIV/AIDS and victims of severe droughts as well as victims in flood situations. In every case we have coupled the IFRP food relief with other health related activities. For example in Kenya, we distributed the food supplements to orphans and vulnerable children both in Nairobi’s slums, but also out in villages and rural areas. Our Kenya in-country partners were able to document actual weight gain in some of the children, and we were also able to use the food as inducements for the caregivers to bring the children in for health check-ups and for immunizations. Our experience has been similar in Zambia, our targeted populations were primarily children but also individuals who were victims of floods which had destroyed their own crops. In every situation we’ve participated in with the food supplements, the targeted populations have liked the product and intermixed it without difficulty into their culture. And, in every situation we’ve participated in, we have been asked by local and district in-country governments if we could obtain additional shipments for the population. |
| CHINA EXCHANGE Since 2003, the Center for International Health has conducted a series of comprehensive health education and training projects in China in collaboration with the former Shanghai Second Medical School (now Jiao Tong University School of Medicine). Prominent among these multidisciplinary health education activities has been “targeted” teaching and training programs in Milwaukee at the Center’s consortium institutions/facilities for Chinese Emergency Medicine physicians, nursing leaders, health administrators, behavioral health specialists and other medical specialties. Pictured are Wisconsin’s Governor James Doyle and Former Vice Mayor of Shanghai Madame Xie Lujean in Shanghai at the signing of a cooperative education agreement between the Center and the Shanghai Bureau of Public Health. And, Former US Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson with Chinese Emergency Medicine physicians Drs. Pan Shuming and Chen Erzhen and their US preceptor, Dr. Ron Pirrillo of the Medical College of Wisconsin. |
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