The Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation is no longer operating. This site preserves its 2004–2008 content and three articles added in 2025.

Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation

Pangaea's mission was to broaden access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and care around the world, with special emphasis on work in resource-limited settings.

Established by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation on World AIDS Day, 2001.

  • Dr. Warne conducts a training session
  • The laboratories at the IDI
  • St. Mary's Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, site of a newly opened HIV/AIDS clinic.
  • The Family Package Project includes counseling for the women in the program
  • Dr. Warne examines a young patient
  • The new clinical care facility at the Makerere University Medical School in Kampala, Uganda.
  • Rwandan President Kagame (left) and Dr. Goosby at the San Francisco Foundation reception on March 7.
  • Inside the IDI
  • Dr. Warne and training group colleagues examine a patient in a rural clinic near Lixin
  • Former Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation President Pat Christen (left) and Makerere University Vice Chancellor Livingstone Luboobi sign documents to transfer ownership of IDI
  • Barbara Lawson and Chuck Wilson at the IDI construction site in Kampala, Uganda
  • Pangaea's Dr. Goosby makes the case for building HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Africa.

Where Pangaea worked

The Family Package Project includes counseling for the women in the program
The Family Package Project includes counseling for the women in the program
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Rwanda

Pangaea worked closely with the Rwandan government in the development of a five-year HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care Plan that was approved in June of 2003.

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St. Mary's Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, site of a newly opened HIV/AIDS clinic.
St. Mary's Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, site of a newly opened HIV/AIDS clinic.
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South Africa

In July 2003, the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation asked Pangaea to join its team of experts to assist the South African Government in preparing an HIV/AIDS treatment plan …

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Dr. Warne conducts a training sessionDr. Warne examines a young patient
Left: Dr. Warne conducts a training session Right: Dr. Warne examines a young patient
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China

Pangaea began working in China in May 2004 as a partner in the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative.

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The laboratories at the IDIThe new clinical care facility at the Makerere University Medical School in Kampala, Uganda.
Left: The laboratories at the IDI Right: The new clinical care facility at the Makerere University Medical School in Kampala, Uganda.
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Uganda

This facility, which opened on August 30, 2004, serves as both a regional HIV clinical training center for physicians and nurses and as a treatment clinic for people living with HIV.

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Ukraine: Pangaea Partners with Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Ukraine

We help set up medical systems that will get people drugs.Renè Durazzo, Director of Global Programs, Global View, June 2004

Results

4
governments helped plan countrywide HIV/AIDS care and treatment with the Clinton Foundation: China, South Africa, Rwanda and the Bahamas
260
patients a day at the IDI adult clinic in Kampala by summer 2005
300+
African doctors and 200 other health workers from 21 countries trained at the IDI by summer 2005

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Three articles added in 2025.