China

Accelerating AIDS Action in China

In partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation is providing technical assistance to the Chinese Ministry of Health and China-based nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to create a sustainable model of HIV prevention that demonstrates the feasibility of reducing new HIV infections throughout China.  

The Gates Foundation’s funding for HIV/AIDS prevention in China supports priorities in China's national AIDS plan and helps increase access to effective prevention programs that target the people most vulnerable to HIV infection in large urban centers. It also aims to increase the proportion of people living with HIV/AIDS that know their HIV-positive status and ensure that they receive adequate care, support and behavior intervention counseling to prevent further transmission. The program is operating in 15 selected cities throughout China.

Part of Pangaea’s role is to assist the various government and NGO partners as they come together in the 15 cities to identify ways in which existing barriers to HIV treatment can be overcome and to develop and implement appropriate standards of care and follow-up services.  To help achieve these goals Pangaea is partnering with AIDS Care China, a service-based NGO in China which delivers HIV care and support with meaningful participation of persons living with HIV.

Supporting the Development of Comprehensive HIV Services in Yunnan

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 Bureau 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.