Texas Children’s Global Health Stories
Global Health symposium draws more than 500 participants for an exchange of ideas on innovation
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.
Breaking the HIV transmission cycle
One of the key successes of this initiative lies in educating the mothers, who in turn, share their knowledge with their communities and other HIV+ mothers.
Let’s not forget the most vulnerable children around the globe in the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Fighting to close the GAP on global pediatric TB care
Building upon the energy of Global TB Program staff members and with nearly a decade of robust TB experience and innovation, the Global TB Program was most recently awarded a five-year, $5 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant that will operate from September 2020 through September 2025. This five year project, “Closing – TB GAPS – for people living with HIV: TB Guidance for Adaptable Patient-centered Services” (TB GAPS), will focus on finding and preventing TB in children and youth, while simultaneously determining the most cost-effective prevention strategy and promoting best practices to sustain the impact of our work.
Center of Excellence credited with saving generation from HIV/AIDS
BIPAI and its network of Centers of Excellence that have saved a generation of children and young mothers from the ill effects of and possibly death from HIV/AIDS.
Saving Lives Across the Globe
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.
Dr. Bip Nandi, pediatric surgeon for Texas Children’s Global Surgery Program in Malawi, shares about the pediatric surgical services offered in Central and Northern Malawi.