HIV and TB care at the village level in Mali
Summary
GAIA community-based HIV care and treatment clinic is the first such clinic in Mali and will be a model for the rest to follow.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
40,000 people are served by the GAIA VF clinic. Before GAIA arrived, there was no HIV care. We provide full access to HIV medicine, TB care, nutritional support, peer education and psychosocial support. Our clinic protocols will be adapted for the Malian national decentralized HIV campaign.
Activities
With your support GAIA VF can Prevent: Mother to Child HIV Transmission Educate: Go door to door, teach Malians about TB/HIV prevention Care: Provide free HIV medication Feed: HIV patients share a weekly meal with our staff
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $3,895
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $116,105
Total Funding Goal: $120,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
GAIA’s plan is to integrate our village-based clinic into the National Malian program within 5 years. We will pave the way to improve access to care in Mali.
Project Message
“Many people talk but GAIA VF delivers on their promises”
- Dr. Allou Sylla, Head of the CSLS
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Anna De Groot De Groot
Staff Member
GAIA Vaccine Foundation
146 Clifford Street
Providence, RI 02903
United States
401-453-2068
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Project Sponsor
Organization
GAIA Vaccine Foundation
146 Clifford St
Providence,
RI
2903
United States
401 453 2068
http://www.gaiavaccine.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Mali
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Mali, read the Human Development Report on Mali or the Wikipedia entry for Mali.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 13, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
Thank you ...
By Annie De Groot - Dr, October 08, 2009 12:00 PM
With your help the GAIA Vaccine Foundation has established itself as a reputable organization for providing HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and treatment programs both in Rhode Island and West Africa.
While we work hard on that HIV vaccine, we have some important news to share. Our Hope Center Clinic is now the first village-level HIV clinic to offer free HIV care in Mali. There are no others like it. Indeed, our clinic has become a model for the “decentralization” of HIV care for the rest of West Africa. With our programs now in place, we are on track to serve almost five times as many patients over last year! And perhaps more important, our clinic is a model for others. Because of our work, West African doctors and policy makers are expanding their efforts to offer more HIV treatment at the village level. Treatment is one of the best means of preventing AIDS transmission now, while we wait for the vaccine to be developed.
As we look both to the near and distant future, there is still so much to be done. In the short term we will measure our success in terms of the number of patients followed by the Hope Center Clinic and will determine whether providing easy access to free HIV care has an impact on viral load, CD4 T cell count, and survival. In the long term, we will measure success by whether we are able to expand the number of people who have access to HIV counseling, testing, and treatment in the other 780 such village-based clinics Mali.
As Dr. Aliou Sylla, director of Mali’s national AIDS program, said at the opening of the Hope Center Clinic, GAIA has set an example for other to follow—we delivered on our promises. It is only with your support that we can continue to deliver on those promises. It is important to remember that our work in Mali is not simply a charity effort: our commitment to improving care, and access to it, is changing the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in West Africa. We thank you for your visionary support of our work and hope that you will continue to sustain this important, life saving effort!
Very truly yours,
Annie
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