Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV

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I want you to take a trip with me.
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Picture yourself driving
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down a small road in Africa,
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and as you drive along, you look off to the side,
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and this is what you see:
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you see a field of graves.
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And you stop, and you get out of your car and you take a picture.
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And you go into the town,
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and you inquire, "What's going on here?"
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and people are initially reluctant to tell you.
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And then someone says,
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"These are the recent AIDS deaths in our community."
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HIV isn't like other medical conditions;
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it's stigmatizing.
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People are reluctant to talk about it --
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there's a fear associated with it.
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And I'm going to talk about HIV today,
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about the deaths,
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about the stigma.
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It's a medical story, but more than that, it's a social story.
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This map depicts the global distribution of HIV.
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And as you can see,
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Africa has a disproportionate share of the infection.
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There are 33 million people
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living with HIV in the world today.
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Of these, two-thirds, 22 million
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are living in sub-Saharan Africa.
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There are 1.4 million pregnant women
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in low- and middle-income countries living with HIV
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and of these, 90 percent
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are in sub-Saharan Africa.
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We talk about things in relative terms.
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And I'm going to talk about annual pregnancies
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and HIV-positive mothers.
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The United States -- a large country --
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each year, 7,000 mothers with HIV
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who give birth to a child.
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But you go to Rwanda -- a very small country --
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8,000 mothers with HIV who are pregnant.
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And then you go to Baragwanath Hospital,
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outside of Johannesburg in South Africa,
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and 8,000 HIV-positive pregnant women
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giving birth --
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a hospital the same as a country.
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And to realize that this is just the tip of an iceberg
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that when you compare
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everything here to South Africa, it just pales,
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because in South Africa,
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each year 300,000 mothers with HIV
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give birth to children.
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So we talk about PMTCT,
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and we refer to PMTCT, prevention of mother to child transmission.
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I think there's an assumption amongst most people in the public
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that if a mother is HIV-positive,
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she's going to infect her child.
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The reality is really, very different.
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In resource-rich countries,
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with all the tests and treatment we currently have,
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less than two percent of babies are born HIV-positive --
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98 percent of babies are born HIV-negative.
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And yet, the reality in resource-poor countries,
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in the absence of tests and treatment,
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40 percent -- 40 percent of children are infected --
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40 percent versus two percent --
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an enormous difference.
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So these programs --
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and I'm going to refer to PMTCT though my talk --
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these prevention programs,
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simply, they're the tests and the drugs that we give to mothers
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to prevent them from infecting their babies,
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and also the medicines we give to mothers
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to keep them healthy and alive to raise their children.
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So it's the test a mother gets when she comes in.
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It's the drugs she receives
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to protect the baby that's inside the uterus and during delivery.
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It's the guidance she gets around infant feeding
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and safer sex.
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It's an entire package of services,
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and it works.
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So in the United States,
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since the advent of treatment in the middle of the 1990s,
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there's been an 80-percent decline
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in the number of HIV-infected children.
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Less than 100 babies are born with HIV
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each year in the United States
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and yet, still,
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over 400,000 children
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are born every year in the world today with HIV.
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What does that mean?
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It means 1,100 children infected each day --
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1,100 children each day, infected with HIV.
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And where do they come from?
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Well, less than one comes from the United States.
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One, on average, comes from Europe.
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100 come from Asia and the Pacific.
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And each day,
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a thousand babies -- a thousand babies
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are born each day with HIV in Africa.
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So again, I look at the globe here
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and the disproportionate share of HIV in Africa.
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And let's look at another map.
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And here, again, we see
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Africa has a disproportionate share of the numbers of doctors.
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That thin sliver you see here, that's Africa.
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And it's the same with nurses.
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The truth is sub-Saharan Africa
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has 24 percent
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of the global disease burden
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and yet only three percent of the world's health care workers.
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That means doctors and nurses
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simply don't have the time to take care of patients.
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A nurse in a busy clinic
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will see 50 to 100 patients in a day,
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which leaves her just minutes per patient --
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minutes per patient.
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And so when we look at these PMTCT programs, what does it mean?
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Well, back in 2001,
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when there was just a simple test
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and a single dose of a drug,
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a nurse, in the course of her few minutes with a patient,
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would have to counsel for the HIV test, perform the HIV test,
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explain the results, dispense a single dose of the drug, Nevirapine,
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explain how to take it, discuss infant feeding options, reinforce infant feeding,
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and test the baby -- in minutes.
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Well, fortunately since 2001,
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we've got new treatments, new tests,
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and we're far more successful,
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but we don't have any more nurses.
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And so these are the tests
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a nurse now has to do
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in those same few minutes.
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It's not possible --
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it doesn't work.
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And so we need to find
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better ways of providing care.
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This is a picture of a maternal health clinic in Africa --
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mothers coming, pregnant and with their babies.
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These women are here for care,
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but we know that just doing a test,
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just giving someone a drug,
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it's not enough.
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Meds don't equal medical care.
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Doctors and nurses, frankly,
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don't have the time or skills
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to tell people what to do in ways they understand.
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I'm a doctor -- I tell people things to do,
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and I expect them to follow my guidance --
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because I'm a doctor; I went to Harvard --
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but the reality is,
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if I tell a patient, "You should have safer sex.
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You should always use a condom,"
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and yet, in her relationship, she's not empowered --
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what's going to happen?
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If I tell her to take her medicines every day
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and yet, no one in the household knows about her illness, so
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it's just not going to work.
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And so we need to do more,
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we need to do it differently,
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we need to do it in ways that are affordable
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and accessible and can be taken to scale,
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which means it can be done everywhere.
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So, I want to tell you a story --
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I want to take you on a little trip.
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Imagine yourself, if you can,
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you're a young woman in Africa, you're going to the hospital or clinic.
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You go in for a test
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and you find out that you're pregnant, and you're delighted.
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And then they give you another test
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and they tell you you're HIV-positive, and you're devastated.
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And the nurse takes you into a room,
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and she tells you about the tests
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and HIV and the medicines you can take
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and how to take care of yourself and your baby,
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and you hear none of it.
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All you're hearing is, "I'm going to die,
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and my baby is going to die."
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And then you're out on the street, and you don't know where to go.
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And you don't know who you can talk to,
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because the truth is, HIV is so stigmatizing
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that if you partner, your family, anyone in your home,
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you're likely to be thrown out
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without any means of support.
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And this -- this is the face and story
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of HIV in Africa today.
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But we're here to talk about possible solutions
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and some good news.
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And I want to change the story a little bit.
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Take the same mother, and the nurse, after she gives her her test,
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takes her to a room.
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The door opens and there's a room full of mothers, mothers with babies,
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and they're sitting, and they're talking, they're listening.
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They're drinking tea, they're having sandwiches.
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And she goes inside, and woman comes up to her and says,
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"Welcome to mothers2mothers.
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Have a seat. You're safe here.
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We're all HIV-positive.
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You're going to be okay. You're going to live.
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Your baby is going to be HIV-negative."
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We view mothers
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as a community's single greatest resource.
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Mothers take care of the children, take care of the home.
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So often the men are gone.
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They're working, or they're not part of the household.
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Our organization, mothers2mothers,
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enlists women with HIV
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as care providers.
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We bring mothers who have HIV,
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who've been through these PMTCT programs
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in the very facilities,
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to come back and work side by side with doctors and nurses
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as part of the health care team.
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These mothers, we call them mentor mothers,
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are able to engage women
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who, just like themselves, pregnant with babies,
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have found out about being HIV-positive,
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who need support and education.
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And they support them around the diagnosis
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and educate them about how to take their medicines,
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how to take care of themselves,
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how to take care of their babies.
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Consider: if you needed surgery,
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you would want the best possible technical surgeon, right?
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But if you wanted to understand
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what that surgery would do to your life,
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you'd like to engage someone,
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someone who's had the procedure.
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Patients are experts on their own experience,
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and they can share that experience with others.
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This is the medical care that goes beyond just medicines.
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So the mothers who work for us,
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they come from the communities in which they work.
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They're hired -- they're paid as professional members of the health care teams,
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just like doctors and nurses.
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And we open bank accounts for them
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and they're paid directly into the accounts,
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because their money's protected;
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the men can't take it away from them.
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They go through two to three weeks
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of rigorous curriculum-based education, training.
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Now, doctors and nurses -- they too get trained.
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But so often, they only get trained once,
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so they're not aware of new medicines,
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new guidelines as they come out.
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Our mentor mothers get trained every single year
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and retrained.
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And so doctors and nurses --
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they look up to them as experts.
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Imagine that: a woman, a former patient,
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being able to educate her doctor for the first time
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and educate the other patients
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that she's taking care of.
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Our organization has three goals.
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The first, to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
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The second: keep mothers healthy, keep mothers alive,
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keep the children alive --
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no more orphans.
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And the third, and maybe the most grand,
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is to find ways to empower women,
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enable them to fight the stigma
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and to live positive and productive lives with HIV.
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So how do we do it?
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Well, maybe the most important engagement
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is the one-to-one,
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seeing patients one-to-one, educating them, supporting them,
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explaining how they can take care of themselves.
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We go beyond that;
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we try to bring in the husbands, the partners.
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In Africa, it's very, very hard to engage men.
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Men are not frequently part of pregnancy care.
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But in Rwanda, in one country,
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they've got a policy
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that a woman can't come for care
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unless she brings the father of the baby with her --
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that's the rule.
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And so the father and the mother, together,
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go through the counseling and the testing.
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The father and the mother, together, they get the results.
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And this is so important in breaking through the stigma.
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Disclosure is so central to prevention.
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How do you have safer sex, how do you use a condom regularly
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if there hasn't been disclosure?
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Disclosure is so important to treatment,
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because again, people need the support of family members and friends
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to take their medicines regularly.
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We also work in groups.
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Now the groups, it's not like me lecturing,
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but what happens is women, they come together --
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under the support and guidance of our mentor mothers --
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they come together, and they share their personal experiences.
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And it's through the sharing
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that people get tactics of how to take care of themselves,
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how to disclose how to take medicines.
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And then there's the community outreach,
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engaging women in their communities.
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If we can change the way
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households believe and think,
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we can change the way communities believe and think.
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And if we can change enough communities,
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we can change national attitudes.
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We can change national attitudes to women
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and national attitudes to HIV.
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The hardest barrier really is around stigma reduction.
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We have the medicines, we have the tests,
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but how do you reduce the stigma?
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And it's important about disclosure.
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So, a couple years ago, one of the mentor mothers came back,
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and she told me a story.
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She had been asked by one of the clients
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to go to the home of the client,
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because the client wanted to tell the mother and her brothers and sisters
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about her HIV status,
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and she was afraid to go by herself.
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And so the mentor mother went along with.
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And the patient walked into the house
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and said to her mother and siblings,
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"I have something to tell you. I'm HIV-positive."
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And everybody was quiet.
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And then her oldest brother stood up and said,
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"I too have something to tell you.
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I'm HIV-positive.
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I've been afraid to tell everybody."
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And then this older sister stood up and said,
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"I too am living with the virus,
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and I've been ashamed."
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And then her younger brother stood up and said,
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"I'm also positive.
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I thought you were going to throw me out of the family."
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And you see where this is going.
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The last sister stood up and said, "I'm also positive.
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I thought you were going to hate me."
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And there they were, all of them together for the first time
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being able to share this experience for the first time
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and to support each other for the first time.
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(Video) Female Narrator: Women come to us,
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and they are crying and scared.
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I tell them my story,
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that I am HIV-positive,
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but my child is HIV-negative.
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I tell them, "You are going to make it,
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and you will raise a healthy baby."
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I am proof that there is hope.
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Mitchell Besser: Remember the images I showed you
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of how few doctors and nurses there are in Africa.
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And it is a crisis in health care systems.
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Even as we have more tests and more drugs,
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we can't reach people; we don't have enough providers.
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So we talk in terms of what we call task-shifting.
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Task-shifting is traditionally
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when you take health care services from one provider
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and have another provider do it.
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Typically, it's a doctor giving a job to a nurse.
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And the issue in Africa
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is that there are fewer nurses, really than doctors,
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and so we need to find new paradigm for health care.
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How do you build a better health care system?
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We've chosen to redefine the health care system
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as a doctor, a nurse and a mentor mother.
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And so what nurses do
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is that they ask the mentor mothers to explain
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how to take the drugs, the side effects.
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They delegate education about infant feeding,
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family planning, safer sex,
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actions that nurses simple just don't have time for.
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So we go back to the prevention of mother to child transmission.
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The world is increasingly seeing these programs
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as the bridge to comprehensive maternal and child health.
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And our organization
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helps women across that bridge.
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The care doesn't stop when the baby's born --
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we deal with the ongoing health of the mother and baby,
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ensuring that they live healthy,
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successful lives.
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Our organization works on three levels.
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The first, at the patient level --
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mothers and babies keeping babies from getting HIV,
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keeping mothers healthy to raise them.
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The second, communities --
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empowering women.
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They become leaders within their communities.
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They change the way communities think --
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we need to change attitudes to HIV.
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We need to change attitudes to women in Africa.
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We have to do that.
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And then rework the level of the health care systems,
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building stronger health care systems.
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Our health care systems are broken.
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They're not going to work the way they're currently designed.
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And so doctors and nurses
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who need to try to change people's behaviors
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don't have the skills, don't have the time --
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our mentor mothers do.
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And so in redefining the health care teams by bringing the mentor mothers in,
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we can do that.
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I started the program in Capetown, South Africa
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back in 2001.
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It was at that point, just the spark of an idea.
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Referencing Steven Johnson's very lovely speech yesterday
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on where ideas come from,
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I was in the shower at the time --
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I was alone.
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(Laughter)
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The program is now working in nine countries,
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we have 670 program sites,
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we're seeing about 230,000
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women every month,
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we're employing 1,600 mentor mothers,
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and last year, they enrolled
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300,000 HIV-positive pregnant women and mothers.
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That is 20 percent
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of the global HIV-positive pregnant women --
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20 percent of the world.
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What's extraordinary is how simple the premise is.
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Mothers with HIV caring for mothers with HIV.
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Past patients taking care of present patients.
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And empowerment through employment --
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reducing stigma.
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(Video) Female Narrator: There is hope,
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hope that one day
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we shall win this fight
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against HIV and AIDS.
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Each person must know
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their HIV status.
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Those who are HIV-negative
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must know how to stay negative.
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Those who are HIV-infected
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must know how
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to take care of themselves.
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HIV-positive pregnant women
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must get PMTCT services
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in order to have
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HIV-negative babies.
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All of this is possible,
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if we each contribute to this fight.
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MB: Simple solutions to complex problems.
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Mothers caring for mothers.
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It's transformational.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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