On August 3, 2023, during World Breastfeeding Week, Fundación Éxito in alliance with Fundación Baylor Colombia and Salutia, held a social mobilization event, featuring a Knowledge Dialogue on breast feeding with a guest panel of invited attendees at the comprehensive health center of Fundación Baylor Colombia. Knowledge Dialogues, or intercultural dialogues, are a method of communication and exchange between groups of people or communities with the aim to improve access to health services and build intercultural trust and health outcomes. In Colombia, this is an important route for community education among indigenous groups.

Texas Children’s Global Health Network, in partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine, hosted its first-ever virtual Research. Art. Innovation. Scholarship. Education (RAISE) Symposium from June 28 to July 2, drawing more than 500 registered participants from more than 20 countries across the world.

Texas Children’s Global Health Network is shining a light on its partners in Colombia and Argentina for World Breastfeeding Week, the global campaign held from August 1-7 that aims to galvanize action on breastfeeding and related issues.

A program of Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), Texas Children’s Hospital and Chevron to improve health outcomes in a remote region of Colombia recently was awarded for its impact in the South American country.

Launched in January 2014, the initiative is based in La Guajira, one of the Colombia’s most impoverished states with a large indigenous community and high child and maternal mortality rates. Called SAIL (Salud y Autosuficiencia Indígenas en La Guajira), the program is a public-private partnership of Chevron, the central and departmental governments of Colombia, the state of La Guajira, and the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Colombia, an affiliate non-government organization of BIPAI.

Even if children are largely spared from COVID-19 direct effects, the pandemic will still cause long-lasting indirect impacts on children globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Building on a 20-year legacy of improving health systems for children, families and communities in limited-resource settings across the globe, Texas Children's Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) Network are working hard to prepare for and respond to COVID-19 in the 10 countries where we work.

Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine are saving the lives of children and women across the globe through a network of physicians, fellows and residents that provide clinical support, training and academic leadership to underserved communities in 18 nations.