What we do
PATA aims to achieve the following on the frontline of paediatric and adolescent HIV service delivery:
Build and support
an engaged network of health providers, facilities and communities
Facilitate platforms
for linking and learning to share knowledge and promising practices
Champion innovative
and targeted paediatric and adolescent HIV service delivery models
Generate, collate
and disseminate evidence, and collaborate in joint advocacy initiatives and partnerships
Mission and Vision
Mission
To connect, motivate and empower a network of champions for health, rights and service quality for children, adolescents and youth affected by HIV in Africa.
Vision
All African children, adolescents and youth affected by HIV access prevention, optimal treatment and comprehensive person-centred care, enabling them to live long, healthy lives.
PATA History
In response to the growing South African HIV epidemic, a group of local health providers established the countries first paediatric treatment programme for HIV-infected children attached to Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH). Funded and supported by the One to One Children’s Fund, the programme reached 300 children as one of the first paediatric treatment sites in the region. Over 90% of children initiated responded to treatment that was implemented as part of a holistic, family-centred approach. The GSH programme began hosting health provider teams from across South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, becoming an important learning ground for others who wanted to initiate paediatric treatment programmes. Seeing this peer learning in action inspired the birth of PATA as a knowledge sharing network of paediatric HIV health provider teams and led to the first PATA Forum convened in 2005. PATA was formally registered in 2007.
PATA Milestones
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2005
2005
First PATA Forum
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2007
2007
PATA (Paediatric AIDS Treatment for Africa) registers
PATA’s forum methodology expands to local, national, regional and continental
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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
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2014
2014
C3 launches
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2015
2015
PATA conducts regional situational analysis
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2016
2016
PATA introduces first Youth Summit
PATA network expands to 364 health provider teams across sub-Saharan Africa
P2Z launches
PATA establishes a Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) and Technical Advisory Panel (TAP)
REACH pilot launches
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2017
2017
PATA begins operating as Paediatric – Adolescent [ribbon symbol] Treatment Africa
PATA celebrates its 10th birthday, holding its 13th Continental Summit and largest forum to date
READY+ launches
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2018
2018
Team PATA expands its team to include in-country technical advisors and country representatives
First PATA Situational Analysis launches, “Reality check in paediatric and adolescent HIV: The here and now of service delivery on the frontline in sub-Saharan Africa”
ABCD launches
DSD4A launches
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2020
2020
Breakthrough partnership launches
PATA hosts its first hybrid, in-person, and virtual summit
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2021
2021
READY 2 launches
Launch of the PATA Linking and Learning Hub
PATA network expands to include 575 health provider facilities across sub-Saharan Africa
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2022
2022
Screen Test and Support for GBV launches
Me and My healthcare provider campaign initiated
Face of Care research and campaign initiated
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2023
2023
PATA network of frontline healthcare providers reach 307 057 children and adolescents on ART, with direct technical, linking and learning support extended to 451 health facilities who support 178 186 children and adolescents on ART
PATA Linking and Learning Hub grows to 5000+ members
PATA Strategy 2024-2030 launches
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2024
2024
Breakthrough Partnership expands to Cameroon and Tanzania
KULEA launches
IMPAACT4HIV launches
Our Theory of Change
PATA’s Theory of Change underpins our strategy for our action network of health providers and health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa to effect positive change in paediatric and adolescent HIV policy and service delivery on the frontline.
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