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5.25.2005 ET
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Special Session Highlights Strengthening of Infrastructure in Tanzania to Fight HIV/AIDS
Health Care Infrastructure Focus of Global Health Council Annual Meeting
(CSRwire) WHAT: With Global Fund and PEPFAR funding increasing access
to HIV/AIDS drugs, inadequate health care infrastructure is now one of the
greatest challenges to delivering HIV/AIDS treatment in the developing
world.
Infrastructure is the subject of this year's Global Health Council (GHC)
annual meeting. One unique program in Tanzania is addressing this
bottleneck head on and laying the groundwork for PEPFAR treatment
programs: Tanzania Care, a public-private partnership of the Abbott Fund
and the Tanzania Ministry of Health, is strengthening the country's public
health infrastructure at every point, including modernizing the national
hospital's outpatient treatment center and laboratories; creating a
national system of referral hospitals; improving hospital management,
administration and systems; training health care staff; and expanding
health capacity and HIV testing nationwide, thereby increasing the entry
points for patients into treatment and care.
A special session at the GHC meeting will feature experts directly
involved in the program in Tanzania, and will discuss progress, as well as
the technical, managerial and political challenges encountered, lessons
learned and how the private and public sectors can combine their core
competencies to improve health care.
WHO:
Joseph Saba, MD, CEO, Axios, and former WHO/UNAIDS official
Zacharia Berege, MD, director of Hospital Services, Tanzania Ministry
of Health
Kenneth Lema, MD, executive director, Axios, Tanzania
Jeff Richardson, executive director, Tanzania Care, Abbott Fund
WHERE:
Omni Shoreham Hotel - Diplomat Ballroom
2500 Calvert Street NW (at Connecticut Ave.), Washington, D.C.
WHEN:
Wednesday, June 1 - Luncheon session
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Spokespeople will be available at other times from May 31 - June 3
NOTE: To schedule an interview with the panelists or to attend the
panel discussion, contact:
Julie Ferguson, Abbott,(847)936-6116, julie.ferguson@abbott.com
Mary Katherine Moore, Cooney Waters Group, (212)886-2206 mmoore@cooneywaters.com.
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