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Africa Gets First HIV/AIDS Hospital TWO Nigerian doctors, Comfort Datong and Shamaki Abdulrahman are among 25 medical practitioners currently receiving training at the first teaching hospital deicated to training African physicians on the latest advances in treatment and care of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Ten of the trainees are from other African countries while the rest are from Uganda. The doctors mid last week witnessed the commissioning of the facility located at the Makerere University, Kampala. World's largest pharmaceutical company, Pfizer Inc. provided $15m for the building as partners of the Uganda university. The initiative for the project came from The Academic Alliance for AIDS Care, with the support of non-governmental organisations such as the San Francisco-based AIDS Foundation, the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) in Uganda. President Yoweri Nakata Museveni of Uganda commissioned the facility, which provides enhanced HIV care for adults, children and families, including antiretrovirals and prophylaxis for opportunistic infections; educates and trains African health care providers in HIV care and prevention. The hospital will also plans to establishe a state-of-the-art diagnostic laboratory to monitor HIV therapy and to support diagnosis of opportunistic infections, tropical diseases and sexually transmitted diseases. The construction of the IDI was completed last April with the HIV clinic opening on August 20. The Institute is said to be the first substantial infrastructural component added to Makerere University's medical school in 35 years. The Institute according to the management, will run as a research, training and care institution devoted to tackling the HIV/AIDS scourge primarily, and will train 250 doctors from all over Africa yearly in intensive one-month courses for persons working in AIDS care or who need specialist knowledge about the disease. Source: http://odili.net/news/source/2004/oct/24/3.html |
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