Who We Are
PATA or Paediatric–Adolescent 
Treatment Africa (legally registered as Paediatric AIDS Treatment for Africa) is a regional, African civil society organisation and action network that connects and strengthens frontline healthcare providers across sub-Saharan Africa.
We work alongside healthcare providers, health facilities, and communities to improve the delivery of integrated, rights-based, and people-centred HIV and related health services for children, adolescents, young people, caregivers, and underserved communities affected by HIV.
The PATA Network works across more than 26 countries, connecting thousands of frontline healthcare providers, Ministry of Health partners, peer supporters, and community organisations through linking and learning, capacity strengthening, technical support and advocacy.
Our Vision: All children, adolescents, their caregivers, and underserved communities affected by HIV in Africa receive quality healthcare and live longer, healthier lives.
Our Mission: To connect, motivate and empower a network of champions for health, rights and service quality.Our Strategy
Our strategy guides everything we do. Explore how we are working with frontline healtcahre providers and communities across Africa to strengthen health systems and improve outcomes for children adolescents, cagivers and underserved communities.
Our Journey
Founded in 2007 in Cape Town, South Africa, PATA began as a small network responding to the urgent need to improve paediatric HIV treatment and care across Africa.
Today, PATA is a growing Africa-centred network connecting frontline healthcare providers, communities, and partners across 26 countries — strengthening health systems through linking and learning, technical support, and advocacy.
As the HIV response continues to evolve, so does PATA — expanding its work to support children, adolescents, young people, caregivers, and underserved communities through more integrated, people-centred health services.
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2005
2005
First local PATA Forum launched
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2007
2007
PATA officially registers as Paediatric AIDS Treatment for Africa
PATA Forums expand regionally across Africa
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2011
2011
The Expert Patient Programme grows out of the 2010 PATA Summit held in Kenya
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2013
2013
PATA network expands to 258 health provider teams across sub-Saharan Africa
- 2014
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2015
2015
PATA conducts its first regional frontline situational analysis
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2016
2016
First PATA Youth Summit launched
Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) and Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) established
Peers 2 Zero (P2Z) peer support programme launches
Re-Engage Adolescents and Children with HIV (REACH) launches
Resilient & Empowered Adolescents & Young People (READY) launches
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2017
2017
PATA celebrates 10 years of linking and learning across Africa
PATA begins operating as Paediatric–Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA)
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2018
2018
Team PATA expands to include in-country technical advisors and country representatives
First “Reality Check” situational analysis launched
Ask–Boost–Connect–Discuss (ABCD) launches
Differentiated Service Delivery for Adolescents (DSD4A) launches
- 2020
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2021
2021
PATA Linking and Learning Hub launches
PATA launches online and blended e-learning courses
PATA network expands to include 575 healthcare facilities across sub-Saharan Africa
- 2022
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2023
2023
PATA Strategy 2024–2030 launched
PATA network supports more than 307,000 children and adolescents on ART through direct linking, learning, and technical support
- 2024
- 2025
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2026
2026
PATA Digital Storybooks “My Healthcare Provider & Me” and “The Girl I Am, the Change I Lead” launched
RISE Research launches
Second “Reality Check” situational analysis launched
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2027
2027
PATA celebrates 20 years of linking and learning across Africa
Donors & Partners
READY+ Consortium
Breakthrough Partnership Consortium
Unfinished Business Consortium in SA
Vibrant Young Voices (VYV) Consortium
IMPAACT4 HIV (I4HIV) Consortium
HIVE Consortium
Thank you to PATA Advocacy Partners
Financial Statements
