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The Southern Africa PATA forum
The fifth PATA forum has come to an end. Twenty-five weary but happy treatment teams headed home, heads packed with new ideas and hearts hopefully lighter, thanks to the opportunity of sharing their cares and concerns with colleagues.
Random conversations with delegates, invited speakers and our local partners from Wits ECHO are agreed that they have enjoyed quality time at this PATA Gauteng forum.
Presentations have been of the highest quality; discussion has been informed and passionate. Teams are coming away with a sense of accomplishment. Each team has set itself a set of quality improvement tasks and we look forward to reports on the progress they are making.
This forum has produced a rich harvest of training and educational tools from MSF, PHRU and TARSC. PATA will be creating a web page listing all available tools. This will be the start of a new resources project we hope to develop with the help of David Goetghebuer of MSF.
If the PATA website can serve as a storage venue for every resource we collect, this will save many organizations the trouble of reinventing these to meet their own needs.
The PATA steering committee is indebted to Melanie Evans (conductor of note), Jenny Watermeyer (presenter, data projector rescuer and master class leader), Vuyiswa Mboyi, Lil Hobbs, Natalie Renaud, Ashley Petersen and Lucia Fundisa Matshoba for their hard work, their efficiency and dedication. Without this team no-one would have enjoyed this seamless conference.
We thank our participants for their enthusiasm, which fuelled the process. We wish everyone safe journeys home and success with the tasks they have chosen.
Hamba kahle, Fambai zvanaka, Hamba kuhle, Poitu vanga, Ibowan, Murabeho, Adeus, Au revoir, Seyeso, Totsiens, Goodbye.
Paul Roux
Our Mission
Expanding access to care for children infected by HIV and their families throughout the African continent.
Our Vision
For HIV-infected and affected children in Africa to access high quality, comprehensive services including ART by 2015.
The Foundation of PATA
lies within compassionate and committed mulidisciplinary treatment teams.
PATA 2009 Southern African Regional Forum, 2 — 5 November 2009, Johannesburg.
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Paediatric HIV Disclosure
Please click on the following link to access documents and presentations on how best to disclose HIV status to children which were kindly provided to us by Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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PATA and Kidzpositive Western Cape Adolescent Workshop poster.
