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Tanzania:

In 2006, a formal affiliation was established between WCMC and the Bugando University College of Health Sciences (BUCHS) and Bugando Medical Center (BMC) in Mwanza, Tanzania. BMC is a 900-bed tertiary care center serving a population of ~13 million Tanzanians. BUCHS was founded in 2003 with a first class of ten students, and now admits approximately 150 medical students per class, per year. BUCHS has been renamed Weill Bugando in recognition of the support of Joan and Sanford Weill.

The goal of WCMC is to make WBUCHS/BMC the best medical school and teaching hospital in East Africa. The goal of the Weill Cornell collaboration is to aid in the development of the WBUCHS/BMC infrastructure and training programs by the exchange of faculty, fellows, residents and students. Long-term goals are to create a platform for self-sustaining research programs and clinical knowledge transfer as in our Haiti and Brazil programs. Each year since 2007 WCMC rotates approximately 40 senior teaching residents and fellows in medicine, pediatrics, surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology to Tanzania and brings 10 Tanzanian physicians to New York for clinical and research training. Two WCMC faculty members are based in Mwanza to serve as mentors, for both the Tanzanian and WCMC medical students and physicians at WBUCHS/BMC.

• Downs JA, Kalluvya SE, Kataraihya JB, Jackson K, Jaka H, Kabangila R, Peck RN. Cranial and epidural abscesses presenting as scalp swellings in a 16-year-old boy: a case report. Tanzanian Medical Journal 2009;24:34-35.
• Downs JA, Mguta C, Kaatano GM, Mitchell KB, Bang H, Simplice H, Kalluvya SE, Changalucha JM, Johnson WD, Fitzgerald DW. Urogenital schistosomiasis in women of reproductive age in Tanzania�s Lake Victoria region. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2011;84(3)364-69.
• Hau DK, DiPace JI, Peck RN, Johnson WD. Global health training during residency: the Weill Cornell Tanzania experience. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2011 September 3;3:421-24.
• Msango L, Downs JA, Kalluvya SE, Kidenya BR, Kabangila R, Johnson WD Jr., Fitzgerald DW, Peck RN. Renal dysfunction among HIV-infected patients starting antiretroviral therapy in Mwanza, Tanzania. AIDS. 2011 Jul 17;25(11)1421-25.
• Peck RN, Kalluvya S, Johnson W, Fitzgerald DW. Toxoplasmic encephalitis with hyperpigmentation and pancytopenia after treatment with Fansidar: case report and review of literature. Tanzanian Medical Journal 2009; 24(1): 36-37.
• Peck RN, Luhanga A, Kalluvya S, Todd J, Fitzgerald DW, Downs JA. Predictors of tuberculosis in first six months after initiation of antiretroviral therapy: a case-control study. IJTLD. 2012 (in press).
• Wajanga BM, Kalluvya S, Downs JA, Johnson WD, Fitzgerald DW, Peck RN. Universal screening of Tanzanian HIV-infected adult inpatients with the serum cryptococcal antigen to improve diagnosis and reduce mortality: an operational study. J Int AIDS Soc. 2011 Oct 11;14:48.