New clinical centers will be added in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso and
Kampala, Uganda.

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A pediatric AIDS corps will be created to
send up to 250 doctors to Africa to treat approximately 80,000 children over
the next five years and to train local health care professionals.
Separately, Bristol -Myers Squibb announced it also is reducing the price
of pediatric formulations of HIV medicines in the world's least developed
countries to expand access to treatment.
"Our goal is to help save the lives of many thousands of African children,
many of whom would otherwise face sure death from HIV/AIDS," said Peter R. Two additional centers will be
established in the developing world through the initiative.researchandmarkets.

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In addition
four new children's clinical centers of excellence will be built in a $40
million program. Recent graduates from approved residency training programs
in pediatrics and family medicine will work in the field but will be linked to
a network of children's centers that serve as hubs for comprehensive treatment
of children and their families . In hard-hit countries, AIDS causes between a third and half of child
deaths. "Scaling up the care and
treatment of tens of thousands of HIV-infected children will take a commitment
to partnerships .

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S. A recent UNICEF news
release noted, "Children represent a disproportionate number of those needing
immediate AIDS treatment .
In addition to its commitment in Africa, the Bristol -Myers Squibb
Foundation funds programs through its Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Thailand,
Vietnam , Mexico, Russia, the Ukraine and France.

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Each of the new clinical centers in Burkina Faso and Uganda, like others
in the network, will provide services directly to as many as 3,000 children at
any one time and will have outreach programs that can serve as many as 10,000
to 20,000 children in surrounding areas. Governments, academic and health care institutions, community
and faith-based organizations and business communities in both developed and
developing countries have a role to play.

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"This program brings
pediatricians and family practitioners to Africa to treat children and train
local health professionals, builds more children's clinical centers from which
the physicians will operate, and further reduces the cost of our HIV
medicines., professor of
pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and director, Baylor International
Pediatric AIDS Initiative .
Participants will be expected to commit to one or two years of service in
Africa treating children with HIV/AIDS and sharing their expertise with local
health care professionals. Sites for these
additional centers have not yet been selected. McGoldrick, executive vice president of Bristol-Myers Squibb.
According to UNAIDS and WHO, an estimated 1. Today's announcement extends the
company's commitment in Africa to nearly $150 million.

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Pediatric AIDS Corps
Fifty physicians will be recruited in the first year of the program, and
as many as 250 physicians will be recruited over the next five years.
The centers will be modeled after the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical
Center of Excellence at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana, which
now has more than 1,200 children in treatment , one of the largest
concentrations of HIV-infected children in care in any center worldwide.
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global pharmaceutical and related health care
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Baylor College of Medicine to Establish Pediatric AIDS Corps for Africa

More information about the AIDS corps,
including how interested physicians can apply, can be found on Baylor's
website, http://www.
Baylor College of Medicine, one of the nation's top academic health
sciences centers, is committed to advancing human health through the
integration of patient care, research, education and community service.

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Company to Build Additional Clinical Centers;
Cuts Price of Pediatric HIV Formulations

HOUSTON and NEW YORK, Bristol-Myers
Squibb Company, New York (NYSE: BMY) and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
today announced a groundbreaking multi-part program to provide medical care
for African children with HIV/AIDS.bayloraids. The Burkina Faso center will be the first pediatric HIV/AIDS
center in West Africa. The Kampala center will replace a facility too small
for the growing patient population. Dr.
"Children are not small adults."

Price Reduction
In another aspect of the three-part initiative, Bristol-Myers Squibb is
further reducing the price of the pediatric formulations for HIV/AIDS
medicines in sub-Saharan Africa and low income countries around the world.

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to enable scale-up of care and treatment programs regionally and nationally.
Through SECURE THE FUTURE, Ministries of Health, medical institutions,
health care professionals, non-governmental, community-based and faith-based
organizations have worked together to build sustainable models to address
medical, educational and community outreach needs in southern and West Africa.

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"Too many children in the developing world are falling victim to HIV/AIDS
due in large part to a combination of lack of trained health care
professionals and adequate facilities which limit the reach of care and
treatment. Close to three million Africans are currently on waiting
lists for a fixed telephone line, and the African Telecommunications Union
(ATU) estimates that there is demand to support an additional 60 million
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2
million children living globally with AIDS are being treated.
"We hope to build on the success of the Bristol-Myers Squibb-Baylor-
Botswana program in treating a population that has deeply touched us and that
remains the most underserved HIV population -- the children of Africa," said
John L.bayloraids.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb's new commitment is approximately $30
million and Baylor's is $10 million. Living stipends, loan forgiveness of up to $40,000
a year and training in tropical medicine and HIV/AIDS will be offered to
participating physicians.

In 1999, Bristol-Myers Squibb and its Foundation launched SECURE THE
FUTURE, then a $100 million commitment to help alleviate the HIV/AIDS crisis
among women and children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Over the years, the
public-private initiative -- the first and largest corporate commitment of its
kind to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa -- has grown in size and scope to encompass
nearly 200 grants providing medical care and research, infrastructure- and
capacity-building and community outreach and education in nine hard-hit
countries in southern and West Africa.com/reports/c14195

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.

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The pediatric AIDS corps and children's clinical centers are the latest
additions to Bristol-Myers Squibb's SECURE THE FUTURE program, which has
previously awarded nearly 200 grants totaling $120 million in sub-Saharan
Africa, and Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatric AIDS
Initiative , which has built and operates several of the world's largest
pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment centers in developing countries in Africa and
Eastern Europe. These new programs address these major problems head-on," said
Dolan.com

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Africa is the world's second largest continent after Asia, with a total
surface area of 30 million square kilometres .

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D.2 million
children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The trilateral
initiative we are announcing today makes it possible to treat huge numbers of
HIV-infected children across Africa, changing forever the way pediatric
HIV/AIDS is perceived and managed.

Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence
The children's clinic network, operated by the Baylor College of Medicine
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Globally, between three
and five per cent of deaths in children under age 5 are now attributable to
AIDS.
In addition to the Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence, other programs
developed and operated through grants include: a Community -Based Treatment
Support Program for sustainable care, with sites in South Africa, Swaziland,
Lesotho , Botswana, Namibia and Mali; and the BMS Foundation NGO Training
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Recruitment begins today with discussions with several leading U. Kline described the centers as
focal points for primary care for children in and around the communities where
they are located, as well as for training of local health professionals in
pediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment. Care and treatment programs must address
this fact as well as the critical shortage of professionals trained in
pediatric care and treatment," said Dr .securethefuture.

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"This groundbreaking program addresses all the major barriers to treatment
of HIV-infected children in Africa," said Mark W. "Fewer than one percent of the estimated 2.org . Other Baylor College of
Medicine children's centers are located in Malawi and Romania.
Since 2001 Bristol-Myers Squibb has offered its HIV medicines in sub-Saharan
Africa at no profit and has provided immunity from suit to generic companies
for the company's HIV/AIDS medicines in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dolan, chief executive officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb.