McCord's Hospital, originally McCord Zulu Hospital, is a hospital in Durban, South Africa. It was founded "for the Zulu", by American Christian missionaries, physician Dr.

James Bennett McCord James Bennett McCord (April 5, 1870 – October 5, 1950) was an American medical missionary and physician who founded the McCord Zulu Hospital and spent over three decades treating mostly African, Native, and mixed race patients in Durban, South A ...

and Margaret Mellen McCord, in 1909. McCord Hospital shut down after 104 years in 2013 due to budget cuts by the local government.

Sinikithema HIV/AIDS Clinic

McCord Hospital's Sinikithemba HIV clinic was a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief site in South Africa that treated provided antiretrovirals to both adults and children. The Sinikithema HIV clinic was one of the first PEPFAR sites to build an electronic medical record. The EMR system identified that nonpregnant women with an elevated mean

body mass index Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person. The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and he ...

(BMI) on the HIV

antiretroviral The management of HIV/AIDS normally includes the use of multiple antiretroviral drugs as a strategy to control HIV infection. There are several classes of antiretroviral agents that act on different stages of the HIV life-cycle. The use of multipl ...

stavudine were at a higher risk of developing lactic acidosis. Several implementation studies were published documenting McCord Hospitals HIV antiretroviral cohorts in prestigious international journals. The Sinikithema family centered model was also featured in a letter to the editor in '' The New York Times''

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