Tanzania-HSPH AIDS clinic opens
A new clinic and research center to benefit Tanzania’s sickest AIDS patients — those for whom the drugs that make up the first line of treatment have failed — opened Friday (July 22) in Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam. The clinic, to be operated by Tanzanian health officials in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), was inaugurated by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Tanzanian Minister of Health and Social Welfare Haji Mponda. Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health Wafaie Fawzi said the program will be the first of its kind in Dar es Salaam and will treat up to 3,000 patients for whom the antiretroviral drug cocktails typically first given AIDS patients have failed. For those patients, Fawzi said, hope lies in a regimen of second-line drugs, which require close monitoring and strict adherence. In addition to treatment, the facility, housed at the Mnazi...