Pangaea Global Aids

Programs: Treatment optimization - bill & melinda gates foundation pangaea is supporting the world health organization (who) and international stakeholders to implement the treatment optimization initiative, which calls for the further scale-up of access to drugs for treating hiv by simplifying treatment regimens and reducing costs. Other components of the initiative include increasing the availability of easier to use and cheaper diagnostics and other hiv monitoring technologies and decentralizing treatment delivery services by integrating with primary care services and other related health priorities.

breast cancer screening hiv linkages - susan g komen for the curepangaea supports chinese clinical and non-profit partners to adapt the lessons learned from hiv community mobilization and community-led peer support networks, for improved community-oriented breast cancer screening and treatment. Providing technical support and training to regional representatives of the all china women's federation is a central component of the project.

best practices for hiv health and support services - bill & melinda gates foundationwith the support of the clinton health access initiative, pangaea is identifying and documenting models of effective and affordable hiv treatment delivery in eastern & southern africa, as a policy tool to inform national aids program managers on how their own services can be strengthened.

other hiv/aids services include: pangaea has been assisting the drug control commission (dcc) of tanzania, the muhimbili university of health & allied sciences (muhas) and the zanzibar aids control program (zacp) with the development of a national framework to address drug dependency and reduce hiv transmission in sub-saharan africa. Pangaea has also participated as a member of an international consortium providing training and mentorship of health care workers in zimbabwe. With funding from roche molecular systems, pangaea is working with aids care china to expand access to viral load testing and also to improve quality of care in china. In oakland, ca pangaea is supporting the roll out of prep in communities of men of color who have sex with men. In addition, pangaea is working on a number of levels to promote treatment optimization, gender equity, and women's empowerment, including the support of adolescent women living with hiv in zimbabwe, hosting an hiv prevention fellow who has focused on ensuring improved access to reproductive health and hiv services for adolescent women and girls in zimbabwe, and evaluating levi strauss' hiv workplace program.