"I am afraid that will look at baby's test results," he told a bunch of children who donated milk positive mothers were born healthy despite having after testing. "But now, most of them are negative."
Dr. young, 33, and the nurses here trained convincing to get many pregnant women have tested and take the drug to prevent, that passed the disease to their newborns. It's all part of a non-profit effort, the he 2008 for $ 40,000 per year and the chance for AIDS oppressed, work in this country, which has only a pediatrician in his entire Government health care system.
He said "If this the last thing I did was that, if this was the only job I had in life, I my purpose would have served,".
Dr. young is the increasing interest of young Americans in the fight against the deadly disease ravaging poorest countries in the world, partly by the billions of dollars, which the US Government, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other organisations have in recent years in international health cast fueled.
In sub-Saharan Africa, a major barrier to combat the disease remains an extreme shortage of health workers. The region is a quarter of the global burden of disease, but has only 3 percent of its health care workers, according to the World Health Organization.
Public health experts say that efforts such as the one with Dr. young especially useful on a continent proved, that urgently needed to train paediatricians, surgeons and other specialists of African doctors and nurses in the field.
And demand for such opportunities. More than 70 universities in the United States and Canada offer now formal academic programs in global health, most of them developed in just the last five years, according to the consortium of universities for global health.
"Today's students really want to make a difference in the world", Michael H. Merson said, Director of the Duke University's Global Health Institute. "they have a passion for sacrifice and service." "It reminds me of the 1960s."
The children of the powerful politicians are part of this new generation of global health enthusiasts. Vanessa Kerry, 34, Harvard-trained doctor and the daughter of Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, is a federal program peace corps like support, the American doctors and nurses to work and train would send shortage of health workers in developing countries.
And Barbara Bush, 29, a daughter of former President George W. Bush, co-founder of the non-profit global health Corps, which this year 36 college graduates from eight countries are working with non-profit groups, in particular in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Malawi sent. More than 1,000 people for the one-year fellowships applied.
The Pediatric AIDS Corps, the Dr. young here largely financed from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and the Baylor College of medicine, sent advertised never for applicants, after the first class of physicians in 2005 has been set. Word of mouth produced far more highly qualified doctors from universities everywhere ever could rent in the United States as the project.
In addition to the content, the program, you pay as much as $40,000 of the doctors makes educational debt for each year of the Management Board - it possible young join for Dr., however he had $170,000 after his undergraduate and medical studies. His mother was an assembly line worker, and in difficult times, the family relied on Medicaid. Dr. young itself never had a steady pediatrician as a child.
With a laugh he said that his friends at home asked him whether he had running water or a branch in Africa. He tells them "We not here by no means are roughing,". He drives a 10-year-old Opel Corsa, but lives in a nice town house in the sleepy capital Maseru, with wireless Internet and a housemaid who comes twice a week. He has gone skiing for the first time in his life - in Lesotho breathtaking mountains.
But it is the work which gives the work of its meaning, the doctors say. Lineo Thahane studied at Princeton University and received her medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis. It was rotation in Lesotho's main public hospital a 2003 during their stay - if children were still die of AIDS because mangelnder antiretroviral therapy-, she made to Africa to return. Her parents were both from Lesotho, but she was born and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Dr. Thahane, 35, joined the first harvest of the Pediatric AIDS Corps doctors in Lesotho and now helps her mother, Dr. Edith Mohapi, 64, who for 20 years managed pediatric emergency service at the Arlington hospital in Virginia, Baylor's Pediatric donated milk programmes in Lesotho run.
"I felt like, 'This is where there is need,'" said Dr. Thahane.
In the last five years, the Corps of 50 to 60 has doctors working in Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi and Botswana. The hospitals and clinics they monitor now care for more than 50,000 donated milk-positive children estimated Baylor.
Effects of the project should also beyond its financing, ending last June. 128 Doctors, in the last five years in the Corps served trained about 3,000 African experts, which to be perform. And in July, Baylor starts another project with 32 pediatricians, to work on a wider range of diseases.
Dr. Grace Phiri, a revised Malawi, the only pediatrician in Lesotho Government for most of the past, increased the arrival of 10 AIDS said doctors Corps in 2006 - as well as AIDS drugs for children were increasingly available - dramatically 17 years, the chances of survival of the donated milk-positive children.
Until 2005, was not a single child with AIDS on publicly funded antiretroviral treatment in Lesotho.
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