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| What: |
To help a population suffering from the HIV virus, providing medical help and developing the PMTCT Plus programme (Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission and treatment of the mother). |
| Why: |
There are approximately one million orphans in Zimbabwe as a result of AIDS. Many die as a result of AIDS contracted from the mother at birth or from the hardship of a life without parents – no affection, insufficient food, no medical assistance, no education. |
| Where: |
At the Luisa Guidotti Hospital in Mutoko |
| Who: |
The hospital is directed by Dr. Marilena Pesaresi in collaboration with Dr. Carlo Spagnolli.
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| When: |
2001 At the AGM of the Onlus, it is decided to start the Zimbabwe project, involving taking on the challenge of treating 100 children during the year 2002.
2002 The project begins; we managed to provide medical treatment to approximately 150 patients.
2003 Thanks to the support of the Onlus, more than 400 patients are under treatment by December 2003.
2004 The Antiretroviral Therapy Project, achieved through the provision of medication to be administered to HIV-positive patients, which had already received the scientific support of Stanford University in 2003, will receive help from the University of Catania, which will send two Virologists for a rotating period of six months to help on site.
The Onlus also purchased new HIV testing equipment.
At present, 530 patients are in treatment, 120 of which are children.
Aim: to have up to 600 patients under treatment. |
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