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pangaeaGLOBAL AIDS FOUNDATION

About Us

The Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation was established by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation on World AIDS Day, 2001. Pangaea's mission is to broaden access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and care around the world, with special emphasis on work in resource-limited settings. As a non-profit consulting organization, Pangaea provides assistance to in-country and international partners in the development of healthcare infrastructure for HIV/AIDS treatment efforts. Our partners include national health ministries, NGOs, universities, foundations and corporations.

Pangaea's senior staff members have been leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States and around the world for over 20 years. With a unique combination of HIV/AIDS medical expertise and high-level management experience, Pangaea's staff is focused on the scale up of HIV/AIDS treatment capacity, including the delivery of ARVs, within existing health care systems. Our years of experience in helping to develop sustainable treatment programs, in contexts ranging from individual clinics to national health systems, enables us to complete projects on time and on budget in the most challenging circumstances. To ensure that its work is effective, Pangaea is committed to creating partnerships that result in health care delivery models that utilize and build on local capacity and are sustainable for the long-term, are culturally relevant and sensitive, and supported by strong management systems.

Current Activities

To achieve Pangaea's primary goal of broadening access to life-sustaining HIV/AIDS treatment and care, the foundation is currently:

  • Helping national governments design and implement comprehensive HIV treatment and care systems within existing local, regional and national healthcare delivery structures;
  • Providing assistance to public and private entities in the creation of management infrastructure to support HIV/AIDS treatment and care delivery programs, including governance, administrative, fiscal, human resources and advanced communications systems;
  • Assisting in the expansion of in-country partner training capacity to increase pools of physicians, nurses and other health providers who can deliver HIV/AIDS care and treatment services;
  • Assisting in the design and implementation of broad-based monitoring and evaluation ("M&E") systems to measure effectiveness and outcomes of HIV treatment and care delivery systems, working to expand in-country capacity to conduct M&E, and assisting in the definition of a national M&E framework and in linking local systems to national requirements;
  • Advising corporate partners on the development and implementation of global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs.

Results

Over the past four years, Pangaea has partnered with the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation to assist the governments of China, South Africa, Rwanda, and the Bahamas in the development and/or implementation of countrywide plans for providing HIV/AIDS care and treatment. In China, for example, Pangaea began work in May 2004 as a partner in the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative. Pangaea's role has been to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in support of expanding a national program for HIV/AIDS care and treatment. Pangaea professionals are providing assistance in a number of areas, including the development of national treatment guidelines for use of antiretroviral therapies, clinical mentoring and training of health professionals, and development of systems for monitoring and evaluation.

In Uganda, Pangaea has partnered with Pfizer Inc, Makerere University and the Academic Alliance for AIDS Care and Prevention in Africa, an organization of North American and Ugandan physicians, to create a state-of-the-art HIV/AIDS training center and clinic, the Infectious Diseases Institute ("IDI"), which opened in August 2004. By summer 2005, the adult clinic at the IDI was seeing an average of 260 patients a day and over 300 African doctors and 200 other healthcare professionals from 21 countries had received training in the provision of advanced HIV/AIDS treatment. In its role as implementation partner, Pangaea has been responsible for managing the capital construction of the IDI, establishing the fiscal and administrative management support for all phases of the project, and managing the implementation of IDI programs. Ownership of the IDI was transferred from Pangaea to Makerere University in June of 2005. Pangaea continues to provide consulting support to the IDI in the areas of grants management and administration.

Pangaea also provides consulting services to the private sector and is currently advising a Fortune 100 corporation on the implementation of a global HIV/AIDS policy that includes a worldwide manager and employee training program and is dedicated to providing all the company's employees with appropriate access to HIV/AIDS treatment.

How You Can Help

Pangaea’s focus on building sustainable and replicable programs has placed its experts at the forefront of the global battle against AIDS. To find out how you and your organization can help Pangaea expand and build upon these efforts, call Pangaea at 415-581-7000 or send an e-mail to info@pgaf.org.