McCord's Hospital, originally McCord Zulu Hospital, is a hospital in Durban, South Africa.
It was founded "for the Zulu", by American Christian missionaries, physician Dr. James Bennett McCord and Margaret Mellen McCord, in 1909.[1]
McCord Hospital shut down after 104 years in 2013 due to budget cuts by the local government.[2]
Sinikithema HIV/AIDS Clinic
editMcCord Hospital's Sinikithemba HIV clinic was a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief site in South Africa that treated provided antiretrovirals to both adults and children.[3][4]
The Sinikithema HIV clinic was one of the first PEPFAR sites to build an electronic medical record.[5] The EMR system identified that nonpregnant women with an elevated mean body mass index (BMI) on the HIV antiretroviral stavudine were at a higher risk of developing lactic acidosis.[6]
Several implementation studies were published documenting McCord Hospitals HIV antiretroviral cohorts in prestigious international journals.[7] The Sinikithema family centered model was also featured in a letter to the editor in The New York Times[8]
References
edit- ^ Parle, Julie. The People's Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s-1970s. Natal Society Foundation. ISBN 978-1-991225-69-6.
- ^ "McCord hospital in Durban closing down". News 24. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ https://www.aidshealth.org/2013/03/south-africa-aids-advocacy-march-to-protest-pepfar-cuts-mar-15-12h00-durban/
- ^ https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-01-23-cutting-the-mccord-durbans-hospital-finally-loses-the-battle/
- ^ Dybul, Mark. "Lessons learned from PEPFAR". Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. doi:10.1097/QAI.0b013e3181bbc98d. PMID 19858928.
- ^ Geddes, Rosemary; Knight, Stephen; Moosa, Yunus; Reddi, Anand; Uebel, Kerry; Sunpath, Henry (2006). "A high incidence of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI)-induced lactic acidosis in HIV-infected patients in a South African context". South African Medical Journal. 96 (8). PMID 17019496.
- ^ Reddi, Anand; Leeper, Sarah C.; Grobler, Anneke C.; Geddes, Rosemary; France, K Holly; Dorse, Gillian L.; Vlok, Willem J.; Mntambo, Mbali; Thomas, Monty; Nixon, Kristy; Holst, Helga L.; Karim, Quarraisha Abdool; Rollins, Nigel C.; Coovadia, Hoosen M.; Giddy, Janet (17 March 2017). "Preliminary outcomes of a paediatric highly active antiretroviral therapy cohort from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa". BMC Pediatrics. 7 (12): 13. doi:10.1186/1471-2431-7-13. PMC 1847430. PMID 17367540.
- ^ Reddi, Anand (1 November 2010). "Aids: Time to Refocus". The New York Times.
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