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DRAMATICALLY IMPROVING GLOBAL HEALTH
The Haitian Global Health Alliance provides financial support for Les Centres GHESKIO (guess-key-oh) in Port-au-Prince and its network of clinics throughout Haiti. Founded in 1982 and directed by HIV pioneers and experts, GHESKIO is the world’s first institution dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS. Today, GHESKIO is a world-class research, treatment, and training institution that serves more than 600,000 patient visits annually. Life-saving protocols and outstanding patient outcomes at GHESKIO have influenced treatment guidelines around the world and have dramatically improved global health. Completely managed by Haitians, GHESKIO provides voluntary HIV counseling and testing; HIV treatment and disease management; maternal-child health and nutrition; tuberculosis diagnosis, treatment, and prevention; cholera treatment and prevention; treatment of sexually transmitted infections; provision of clean water and sanitation; primary education; student scholarships; and many other health and social services. Serving some of the poorest individuals in Haiti, GHESKIO provides excellent, compassionate treatment and preventative services at no cost to its patients. To contact the Haitian Global Health Alliance, send an email to scott@hgha.org.
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CLINICAL ServiceS
Training
Short-term Training
GHESKIO offers training to a broad array of Haitian healthcare workers and medical personnel, including medical students, social workers, laboratory technicians, nurses, physicians, and investigators interested in research careers. GHESKIO trainees also include community health workers. GHESKIO is the national center for training laboratory technicians to conduct HIV serologic testing, and hundreds of laboratory technicians from across Haiti have trained at GHESKIO. GHESKIO developed national algorithms for the management of sexually transmitted infections and has trained thousands of clinicians in the syndromic management of sexually transmitted infections. GHESKIO trainees can be found in any hospital or health clinic in Haiti in which HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis services are provided.
Long-term Training
GHESKIO recruits talented young Haitian investigators for long-term training in Haiti and abroad. Trainees focus on the priority research areas necessary for developing and expanding HIV care and prevention services: HIV vaccines, pediatric and adult antiretroviral therapy, health outcomes of HIV care and prevention, pediatrics and the prevention of mother to child transmission, tuberculosis and other HIV-associated opportunistic infections, ethics, and HIV pathogenesis, immunology, and virology.
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND NURSE PRACTITIONER TRAINING
In collaboration with Quisqueya University Medical School and Weill Cornell Medical College, GHESKIO offers courses towards a master in public health degree (since 2005, the first in the country) and towards a nurse practitioner diploma (since 2009, the first in Haiti). Click here for more detail.
Research

Haiti has the highest HIV prevalence in the Carribean
33%
GHESKIO serves almost one third of all people on HIV treatment in Haiti


