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About Us
Baylor Black Sea Foundation is part of Baylor Center became the largest pediatric clinic in Europe for
International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at Texas the care and treatment of HIV. Baylor Romania is part
Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. The mission of of a network of centers with headquarters in Houston,
BIPAI is to provide high-quality, high-impact, highly Texas, USA at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas
ethical pediatric and family-centered health care, health Children’s Hospital. The network includes 20 countries
professional training and clinical research, focused on
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition and other
conditions impacting the health and well-being of
children and families worldwide.
The Center of Excellence or the Romanian-American
in Africa, North America, South America and Eastern
Europe. Today, the Baylor Foundation has an extended
mission in preventing, treating and caring for infectious
diseases. Baylor operates a center of excellence in
Constanta, three rapid testing and counseling offices in
Children’s Center was opened on April the 6th, 2001, Dobrogea area (the first ones in Romania) and a mobile
and the Baylor Black Sea Foundation was established in testing laboratory. Baylor Black Sea Foundation works
2004. The Center was founded by Dr. Mark Kline, who towards minimizing the impact of infectious diseases
wished to help the children infected with HIV whom he such as HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis and
met during his first visit to Romania in the late ‘90s. The sexually transmitted diseases.
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