Medical School to Lead Effort to Improve Care in Ethiopia

From the Wisconsin State Journal “On Campus” blog, June 14, 2009 On Campus: University of Wisconsin Medical School to lead effort to improve care for AIDS patients in Ethiopia By DAVID WAHLBERG 608-252-6125 dwahlberg@madison.com The UW School of Medicine and Public Health is leading a federally funded partnership to improve emergency medicine for people with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. Dr. Girma Tefera and the medical school’s Center for Global Health are working with a hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, to improve its emergency care. The partnership was announced this week by the American International Health Alliance, which is funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Ethiopian doctors have been in Madison this week, working with doctors here.