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Helping Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS

For more than two decades, Abbott and the Abbott Fund have been global leaders in combating HIV/AIDS with medicines and tests.

Helping Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS

We have also led the way in making HIV medicines and tests available in developing nations where the disease is especially prevalent – including Romania and nations throughout Africa.

Helping Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS

Dr. Mark Kline, president of the Baylor College of Medicine’s International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, pioneered the concept of opening local clinics specializing in pediatric treatment for the disease. We’ve teamed with Baylor and Dr. Kline to open three of these clinics in Eastern Europe and Africa, as well as supporting the overall administration of the network of clinics.

Helping Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS

Malawi is another of the countries hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with an estimated 83,000 of its children living with the disease. In November 2006, we underwrote the building of the country’s first pediatric outpatient clinic dedicated to the care and treatment of children living with HIV in Lilongwe.

Helping Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS

Baylor’s clinics are providing care and treatment to more than 80,000 children, with support from Abbott and the Abbott Fund totaling more than $50 million in grants and products.

Helping Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS

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Overview
Abbott has been a significant contributor to the fight against HIV/AIDS for more than two decades. Since 2000, Abbott and the Abbott Fund have invested more than $250 million in grants and product donations targeted to resource-poor countries most impacted by HIV/AIDS. The focus of these efforts includes expanding access to care, testing and treatment; strengthening HIV/AIDS health care systems; preventing mother-to-child transmission; and supporting children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. In addition, Abbott and the Abbott Fund have helped pioneer innovative model programs to combat the disease. For example, we helped build the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative's first pediatric outpatient clinic in Romania in 2001, which has served an average of 700 patients per year. The clinic has reduced pediatric HIV mortality rates by more than 90 percent. Today Baylor has replicated the Romania model in additional clinics throughout Africa and now serves more than 100,000 children and young people with HIV – including those at two clinics built by and supported by the Abbott Fund in Malawi and Tanzania. To date, Abbott and the Abbott Fund have contributed more than $50 million in products and grants to Baylor’s International Pediatric AIDS Initiative.
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05/14/2012
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