Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation, Malawi

Fellowship Site Directors:  Phoebe Nyasulu  

Site Contacts:  

Bridgette Naik, bcnaik@bcm.edu   
Maral Gurbanova, maral.gurbanova@bcm.edu 

Websites:   

https://www.texaschildrensglobalhealth.org/malawi  
  

Site Specialties:  

• HIV  
• TB  
• Cancer  
• Maternal Health  

Site Description:  

The Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi) has worked in partnership with the Malawi Government in the Health Sector since 2005. We have three main areas of focus: service delivery, training and research, in that order of priority. Our original mission was to improve the health and lives of HIV-infected children and families through high quality, high impact, ethical, state-of-the-art comprehensive care and treatment, training of health professionals and clinical research.   

Baylor Foundation Malawi has now been operating in Malawi for nearly fifteen years and has broadened our mission to include maternal health care services, mainly at Ethel Mutharika Maternity Wing at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) and Area 25 Health Centre, pediatric oncology at KCH, pediatric emergency medicine at KCH and pediatric surgical and anaesthesia services at KCH. Through its main outreach arm, the Tingathe Program, Baylor Foundation Malawi assists the Ministry of Health in improving prevention of mother-to-child transmission, early infant diagnosis, and pediatric HIV care and treatment services through onsite mentorship teams in various districts of the country, but currently is working in seven districts in Central and South Eastern Malawi: Salima, Lilongwe, Balaka, Mangochi, Machinga, Mulanje and Phalombe.