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U.S. Ambassador Mark Green and Pamela Barnes, President of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), look on as Prof. David Mwakyusa, Minister of Health and Social Welfare cuts ribbon to open a new Child Centered Family Care Clinic in Moshi.
U.S. Ambassador Mark Green and Pamela Barnes, President of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), look on as Prof. David Mwakyusa, Minister of Health and Social Welfare cuts ribbon to open a new Child Centered Family Care Clinic in Moshi.

PEPFAR Supports Family Clinic in Moshi

December 6, 2007

Ambassador Mark Green was on hand in Moshi for the opening of a new clinic opening that will provide hope to HIV-positive women, children, and families in desperate need of access to care and treatment services. The Child Centered Family Care Clinic will provide greater service availability for children and families living with HIV. The clinic, a joint venture of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, KCMC and Duke University is supported by PEPFAR (the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) through USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Development) and CDC (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and will serve as a model for pediatric care in Tanzania. It is the first of its kind to focus on decentralizing pediatric care and education, thereby making services more available to children and families. Services provided at the clinic will work to increase the number of children and families receiving ARV (anti-retro viral) treatment by:

  • Linking prevention of mother-to-child-transmission services with those of care and treatment;
  • Coordinating and conducting outreach training for health care workers to provide families with care and treatment in their communities outside of the KCMC;
  • Comparing patient registration logs from different sites to ensure patients are following their medication regimen;
  • Communicating with partners in rural areas to maintain home-based care visits
  • Offering elective attachments for health workers from other sites at the CCFCC for capacity building in pediatric AIDS
  • And training of Tanzanian residents in Pediatrics

Support to KCMC and the Child Centered Family Clinic is part of on-going U.S. Government support to Tanzania. By the end of this fiscal year, America will have provided over $818 million to Tanzania towards combating HIV/AIDS. This assistance comes from the American people and is part of overall U.S. Government direct and multilateral assistance to Tanzania of more than 725 billion Tanzanian shillings.