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CONTACT: Doug Carlson, (850) 645-1255; <doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu> March 31, 2008 BAYLOR PROFESSOR TO DISCUSS GLOBAL PEDIATRIC AIDS CRISIS A physician making a global impact helping children in the developing world afflicted with AIDS will speak at the Florida State University College of Medicine on April 3. Dr. Mark Kline, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of retrovirology at Texas Children’s Hospital, will discuss “Global Pediatric AIDS: At the Tipping Point.” Kline leads the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, which treats children in Mexico, Romania, Ukraine, China and 20 African countries. Working with UNICEF, his organization has become the pre-eminent children’s AIDS support group in the world. Kline’s lecture, which is free and open to the public, outlines accomplishments in pediatric and family-centered HIV care in the United States and the contrasting HIV/AIDS tragedy in developing countries, where fewer than 10 percent of HIV-positive children in need of treatment are receiving it and fewer than 10 percent of HIV-positive pregnant women are receiving drug therapies to prevent the transfer of the disease to their unborn child. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held: THURSDAY, APRIL 3 # # # |