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This is usually the point at which most of us in the rich countries of the world throw up our hands in despair. Not so Dr. Mark Kline of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "If you focus on the enormity of the problem, you'll never get started," says Kline, who has cared for hundreds of HIV-positive children over the years in the U.S. and has seen many of them grow old enough to have children of their own (see box). "You have to tackle it piece by piece...
...responsible for turning these urban docs into developing world saviors is Dr. Mark Kline, director of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI). An affable, Ed Harris look-alike, Kline is the mind, body and soul of BIPAI. He is responsible for creating the Pediatric AIDS Corps (PAC), an innovative, Peace Corps-like program for U.S. doctors interested in treating children with AIDS in the developing world, where over two million kids are currently living with...
...Simply stated, pediatric HIV care was not happening in Africa," says Kline. "One of the major barriers today to scaling up programs for children is that there aren't doctors there who know about the care of children; they don't have the experience caring for children, for dosing ARVs, and for handling side effects." After learning that only five to seven percent of AIDS-affected children are actually receiving drug treatments for their disease, Kline partnered with the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation in 2003 to build and operate the first dedicated pediatric AIDS center in Bostwana. "I thought, five...
...This year, PAC doctors are deployed to six centers around Africa, and their goal is nothing less than to work themselves out of a job. "The PAC is a bridge program," says Kline. "If we have an American Pediatric AIDS Corps on the ground ten years from now, we haven't done our jobs." Nobody knows better than these doctors themselves that they are only a band-aid, a temporary solution to the more insidious problem of the weak health care system in Africa. The U.S. doctors are charged with treating children urgently in need of ARV care, while...
...doubt, the effectiveness of Botox and other procedures has pressured the industry to devise new products and at-home dermatological kits. Last year, says Carrie Melage of Kline & Co., more than 1,000 antiaging treatments were launched; Clarins alone has 32 antiaging items in its line, up from nine...