- Disease area(s): HIV/AIDS
- Company(ies): Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Partner(s): Baylor College of Medicine in USA
- Since 1999
- Program type(s): Capacity Building - Support & Training
- Developing country(ies): (8 developing countries in Africa)
- Contact(s):
- IFPMA ID: 1006
Bristol-Myers Squibb's Secure The Future® initiative (see HIV/AIDS Capacity Building), in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, funded the first clinical center in Africa for children and families with HIV/AIDS, located in Botswana. This center now has more than 1,500 children under treatment. Additional children's clinical centers have now been opened in Lesotho, Swaziland and Uganda, and two more are being built in Tanzania and Kenya. These centers add capacity to fight HIV/AIDS by providing modern facilities for testing, treating and monitoring children and their families, as well as training of local health care professionals.
To increase the number of trained pediatric specialists, Secure The Future® and Baylor College of Medicine created the Pediatric AIDS Corps, which will send 50 doctors a year over five years to Africa to treat some 100,000 children and train local health care professionals. The first class of 50 doctors arrived in Africa in August 2006. Additional Secure The Future® projects provide education, psychosocial care and support for orphans and vulnerable children, training, food security and income-generating projects for caregivers; and works to reduce stigma and encourage testing.


