WorldView Magazine - Fall 2009 - (Page 17)

Health A QUESTION OF CAPACITY RPCVs-turned physicians combat AIDS in Africa through service in the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Corps by Shannon Cummings improving the human condition, enhancing human security, advancing human prosperity Smiley N. Pool ew Volunteers complete their two-year stint in the Peace Corps without being changed for the better, forever. But the call to service becomes entrenched in some extraordinary volunteers who simply cannot shake the urge to further their work in the developing world. Highly influenced by their experience in the Peace Corps, six Returned Peace Corps Volunteers have gone on to use their medical degrees to provide life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment to African children who would otherwise go without care. The Pediatric Aids Corps (PAC), a program run under the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Baylor College of Medicine, sends physicians fresh out of residency to serve in clinics that provide sorely needed treatment to children infected with HIV/AIDS in African nations plagued with soaring infection rates. PAC seeks to build a network of clinics that create both the infrastructure and the human capacity necessary to grant children access to critical HIV/AIDS treatment. According to the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Corps website, in southern Africa 40 to 60 percent of deaths to children under the age of five years old are caused by AIDS/HIV. The staggering enormity of the problem is what prompted PAC architect, Dr. Mark Kline, to create the WorldView 1 http://www.du.edu/korbel/wv http://www.du.edu/korbel/wv

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of WorldView Magazine - Fall 2009

WorldView Magazine - Fall 2009
Contents
President's Letter
Your Turn
Are You Connected Yet? Join Africa Rural Connect
Group News Highlights
Why Investment in Health Is Critical Now
New Hope and Lessons from Rwanda
Turning a Blind Eye
A Question of Capacity
CN U HLP ME? I HAVE A ??
When Water and Sanitation Are a Priority
Could “Peace Care” Lessen the Global Burden of Disease?
One, Two, Three
Translating International Health to Health Care at Home
Turning Tragedy to Opportunity
Costa Rica: Finding My Religion
St. Lucia: Learning about Hunger
Seven Dusty Notebooks
Peace Corps Service 2.0
The Peace Corps Community Making a Difference
Community News
Advertiser Index

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