Children’s Clinical Centers of Excellence Network
BIPAI established the Children’s Clinical Centers of Excellence Network in February 2004. Currently operating nine Children’s Clinical Centers of Excellence (COE) on three continents, BIPAI provides care and treatment in aggregate to over 24,000 HIV-infected children and their families. The Network gives children and families in resource-limited settings access to the same kind of comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment and clinical research that have transformed the health and lives of U.S. children and families. The COEs in Romania, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Uganda, Malawi, and Burkina Faso are supported by BIPAI-affiliated non-government organizations (NGOs), created in each country to provide organizational structure for the management, operations, and financial oversight of each COE. All of the BIPAI-affiliated NGOs operate as standalone organizations, each with an independent Board of Directors appointed by Baylor College of Medicine. Each NGO is structured following traditional American non-profit organizational models and embraces Baylor College of Medicine’s best practices in every aspect of operation.
Adapted with permission from the BIPAI website, February 2009.
- Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative
- Texas Children's Hospital
- Clinical Care Center
- 6621 Fannin, CC 1210
- Houston, TX 77030
- Phone: 832.822.1038
- Email Program Director: mkline@bcm.edu
- http://bayloraids.org/