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IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF PEDIATRIC ART SERVICES
IN ZAMBIA THROUGH PHARMACIST TRAINING

September, 2007

The Pediatric ART Centers of Excellence in Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia, have
partnered with the Center for International Health (CIH) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to
improve the quality of HIV related treatment and care available to children and young
adults in Zambia. With PEPFAR support, partners are building local training capacity
to enable pharmacists in Lusaka and Livingstone to better organize and manage
pharmacy services thereby enhancing the delivery of quality HIV/AIDS care to
mothers, infants, and children.

CIH experts conducted an assessment visit to Zambia in November 2006. A team of
four partners from Zambia then traveled to Milwaukee in April 2007. During this
visit, the Zambian partners learned about the pharmacy and other related resources of
CIH consortium institutions, as well as local community-based programs relevant to
the partnership’s objectives.  Other highlights included a tour of Children’s Hospital
of Milwaukee, where they shadowed pharmacists on patient rounds and toured the
School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin -Madison Health Sciences Center.
Partners also met with key clinical staff and faculty,and finalized their year-one work
plan.

In September 2007, another team of four partners from Zambia traveled to Milwaukee
for a four-day training workshop designed to provide them with the essential
knowledge base, skills, attitudes and values that will enable them to function in Zambia
on a continuing basis as a core training team conducting in-country training,

Upon their return to Zambia, in-country training workshops were conducted in
January 2008 under their leadership and with the oversight of Tom Lausten, RPh,
Director of Pharmacy, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Kim Bohince, Program
Analyst, AIHA, Dr. Tyson Muungo, Department Head, School of Pharmacy,
University of Zambia School of Medicine, and Dr. Chipepo Kankasa, Clinical Head,
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Director, Pediatric HIV Center of
Excellence, University Teaching Hospital.

Additional workshops have been scheduled for June 2008, with the additional
participation of Peter Havens, MD, MS, HIV/AIDS Program Director, Children's
Hospital of Wisconsin, Professor, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Medical College of
Wisconsin.