• India - Nurses Training Initiative has created a standardized, uniform training for nurses in HIV/AIDS to increase each nurse’s knowledge and to create a cadre of nurses capable of training other nurses.
• Lesotho - One hundred nurses are being hired for remote mountain clinics. These nurses are being provided with the Integrated Management of Adult Illnesses (IMAI) training before being placed in the health facilities. They are also receiving clinical mentoring. In addition local nurse mentors work with foreign experts in clinical settings to transfer knowledge, with an eye towards a gradual shift to a local mentoring model. Specially trained and mentored Basotho nurses have taken on the role of providing comprehensive HIV care, including ART. A group of nurses recently added pediatric treatment to their practices after a 6-week mentoring program provided by CHAI
• China - The MOH-Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Service Fellowship nurtures a core group of Chinese HIV experts and provides them with incentives to work in underserved, AIDS-affected areas of the country. Highly skilled physicians are chosen to receive six months of overseas and domestic training under CHAI-supported physicians. In addition, The Sino-US Lixin HIV/AIDS Physician Training Center is the first training center for front-line physicians in a high-prevalence and resource limited setting in China. It is a joint collaboration involving, among others, China CDC and CHAI. To-date, trainers and trainees have provided care for over 800 HIV-positive patients in Lixin, and provided treatment to an additional 400 patients. Following their training, training center graduates have gone on to treat an additional 1,000 patients.
• Ethiopia - Projects in 2006 were focused on four rural district hospitals. Fifteen volunteer clinicians committed to 6-12 weeks to on-site mentoring, the success of which led to CHAI’s decision to hire full-time mentors for sites mutually identified with government partners. Currently, six experienced clinicians with a particular focus on identifying and treating infected children are supporting CHAI’s work in Ethiopia.
• Kenya - Through its Nursing Initiative, which recruited, trained, and deployed 1,000 nurses to rural areas across Kenya, clinical mentors will be placed in all of Kenya’s17 districts.
• Tanzania - CHAI is working to identify sites for mentoring, and assess possibility of long-term mentors.
• Rwanda - CHAI has provided mentors with pediatric expertise to help identify and treat children, while strengthening systems within several clinics in Rwanda.
• Liberia - CHAI is implementing a mentoring program at JFK Hospital, the largest hospital in the capital city, and other facilities identified by the Ministry of Health. Much of the mentoring focuses on clinic issues related to pharmacy, labs, medical records and linkages between in-patient wards and out-patient clinics.

Other Country Teams are also working with their government partners to design clinical mentoring programs in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Malawi, Mozambique, Cameroon, Trinidad, Guyana, the Bahamas and Ukraine.