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International Center for Equal Healthcare Access

Princeton, New Jersey

Cause Description:
The International Center for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA) is a not-for-profit organization that engages trained healthcare professionals to transfer their expertise on HIV care and infectious diseases to colleagues in developing countries. ICEHA clinical mentors equip local care givers with the skills needed to take care of their own patients, thereby enabling developing countries to fight the HIV epidemic effectively from within. While prices of antiretroviral drugs (ARV) have been lowered to the current level of $140 per patient, per year, the implementation of successful treatment and prevention programs has been severely hampered by the lack of trained healthcare professionals capable of carrying the patient load. In order to increase the overall capacity of national healthcare systems to respond to HIV, ICEHA leverages the wealth of expertise from resource-rich countries in a way that is relevant for the resource-poor settings. Our clinical mentoring program, in which ICEHA volunteer healthcare professionals transfer their medical expertise, was specifically designed to rapidly scale up the skills of local caregivers in developing countries. This allows more HIV-infected patients to be able to receive treatment and HIV-transmissions caused by unsafe medical practices to be reduced. In the process, the developing countries gain a sustainable knowledge base that can expand internally to meet the rising demand for clinical expertise on HIV/AIDS.

Type: Human/ Social Services
Listed on iGive since: January 2006
iGive members supporting: 2

Website: www.iceha.org

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