Yunnan Bureau of Health

Since 2004, as a partner with the Clinton Foundation China HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), Pangaea has been providing technical assistance to the China Ministry of Health in support of expanding a national HIV/AIDS treatment program. Initial efforts focused on developing national treatment guidelines for ART, working with provincial authorities in Anhui and Yunnan provinces to provide clinical training and mentoring of health care professionals, and to support the development and scale up of comprehensive HIV/AIDS treatment models linked with community based support services.

For the past four years, in partnership with the Yunnan Bureaur of Health, Pangaea has been closely involved with hospitals delivering care in Yunnan, providing technical assistance to doctors, nurses and other health staff in support of bringing people into care and retaining them in care over time. A special focus has been on treating the drug- and HIV-related issues of injection drug users and working together with local authorities to expand treatment access to populations in drug detention centers.