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China
AIDS Initiative Partners
The medical and
societal barriers underlying China’s AIDS epidemic are too numerous
and persistent for any single organization to overcome. CAI is an
alliance of Chinese and international partners that share an overarching
commitment to help China accelerate its response to HIV/AIDS, drawing
on their complementary strengths. Together, CAI’s partners are
scaling up programs to reach hundreds of millions of potential victims
before the human and social costs become uncontainable.
China’s key public health agencies have embraced CAI’s ambitious
vision and are working with CAI to build comprehensive HIV/AIDS health
care systems in the affected provinces. At the national level, CAI
is galvanizing China’s new leaders to move AIDS up the agenda,
encouraging policy reform to reduce discrimination, developing information
campaigns to educate vulnerable populations, and advocating greater
public investment.
CAI’s unified approach to HIV/AIDS is a public-private partnership
that leverages international best practice and its partners’
core competencies to expand prevention, testing, treatment and care
to unprecedented levels in China. This integrated strategy will help
CAI realize its objective of reducing forecast HIV infections five-fold
by 2010.
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
For
more than a decade ADARC has been at the forefront of international
AIDS research, with numerous investigative and clinical programs
including several long-term collaborations with leading Chinese
medical and education institutions.. CAI was formed by Dr. David
Ho to help China launch decisive interventions against AIDS and
to maximize the effectiveness of CAI partners’ strategies there.
ADARC now provides overall leadership to CAI and strategic direction
to the alliance members.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking
Union Medical College
CAMS/PUMC, China’s leading center of
medical education and research, provides critical support for China-based
programs of CAI’s international and domestic partners. From
its headquarters in Beijing, CAMS also coordinates CAI’s collaborations
with official government agencies responsible for China’s response
to HIV/AIDS.
William J. Clinton
Presidential Foundation
President Clinton’s
commitment to the fight against AIDS was extended to China when
he launched CAI at the November 10, 2003 AIDS Summit hosted by Tsinghua
University, CMAS/PUMC and ADARC. While in Beijing he also visited
AIDS patients and met privately with Chinese leaders to stress the
urgency of a robust government response. The Clinton Presidential
Foundation is committed to helping China mobilize against HIV/AIDS
and President Clinton has pledged his continuing personal support
for CAI’s work.
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua’s Center for AIDS Policy Research
is pioneering programs that examine societal drivers behind the
epidemic in China and developing innovative intervention strategies.
Tsinghua is organizing expert gatherings to build awareness among
policymakers, journalists and other opinion-leaders, formulating
legislative recommendations and media campaigns, and deploying its
convening power, networks, and reputation as an honest broker to
accelerate China’s national response.
The
China AIDS Media Project
CAMP was founded in 2003 by Thomas Lennon
and Ruby Yang to promote public education and understanding of AIDS
to audiences within China as well as overseas. In partnership with
the NBA and the China AIDS Initiative, Yang and Lennon wrote and
edited a 2004 public service campaign featuring basketball stars
Yao Ming and Magic Johnson. Current projects include training DVDs
for AIDS workers in China, AIDS-related broadcasts on Chinese television
as well as a feature-length documentary for international distribution.
Wuhan
University
Wuhan University will leverage its standing
as China's leading virology institute to deliver training for laboratory
and clinical workers charged with HIV/AIDS testing and treatment
under the CAI. The University will also provide expanded technical
support to physicians and government officials responsible for AIDS
programs in the central provinces.
Health Bureaus of Henan, Yunnan and Hubei Provinces
The forward battles in China’s war on
HIV/AIDS are not fought in Beijing but in provinces and counties
of central and south China, where authorities are overwhelmed by
the crisis and often underequipped to respond. Insufficient training
and inadequate public health infrastructure are constant obstacles.
CAI is partnering with the health bureaus of Henan, Yunnan and Hubei
– three of the most severely affected provinces – to establish
widespread voluntary testing, counseling and clinical treatment
programs that will dramatically augment the scale and effectiveness
of the local response.
The
Hong Kong AIDS Foundation
With the march of AIDS respecting no borders,
HKAF initiated programs in China in the mid 1990s and to date has
trained more than 4,000 Chinese AIDS workers, health professionals
and officials. HKAF’s programs have increased local knowledge
about HIV in numerous cities and built capacity in program planning,
counseling and care and support. The benefits have been leveraged
because many HKAF trainees have passed their new skills to other
colleagues and organizations. Through its partnership with CAI,
the Foundation will extend its interventions to new regions and
target groups in China, focusing on bridging populations to help
prevent the epidemic from breaking out of isolated rural areas into
the general population.
Project
HOPE
A global leader in HIV/AIDS professional training,
Project HOPE is leading CAI’s physician training initiative
by: developing standards of care for HIV/AIDS in China; delivering
advanced provider training and consultation/referral systems at
major tertiary care institutions; providing basic training for community
medical providers in diagnosis and management of HIV-infection and
concurrent illnesses; and designing, refurbishing and training regional
laboratories and staff.
The Brookings Institution
Brookings is evaluating the economic costs
of HIV/AIDS in China, modeling the social interactions underlying
the disease contagion, analyzing costs incurred by previous lack
of transparency about the disease, and forecasting gains that could
be realized by increases in transparency going forward. These studies
will help CAI and China design better preventive policies aimed
not only at alleviating costs, but also identifying strategies for
slowing transmission.
Yale-China Association
Drawing on a century of collaboration in China
and with expertise from Yale University's Schools of Medicine, Nursing
and Public Health, the Yale-China Association initiated an HIV/AIDS
professional education program for Chinese health care workers in
1997. This program led to the development of a culturally-specific
curriculum and a cadre of Chinese nurses who are skilled in HIV/AIDS
clinical care, knowledgeable and compassionate about attendant social
issues, and engaged in educating other health workers to the same
level of proficiency. Through the CAI, Yale-China will extend these
modules to tens of thousands of nurses, primary care providers,
and community health workers in the affected provinces, and provide
intensive follow-up to help meet the exponentially growing needs
of HIV-positive patients and AIDS victims.
NGOs and implementing partners
A broad array of NGOs and affiliated groups
has joined CAI to help implement cooperative programs among at-risk
groups and victims in the affected provinces.
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