The Houston Chronicle on Saturday examined the Baylor College of
Medicine's International Pediatric AIDS Initiative in Bobo-
Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. According to the Chronicle, the
initiative was established in Bobo-Dioulasso almost two years
ago, and physicians initially believed that "by now they would
be treating patients ... in their own facility with modern
equipment." However, the initiative has been "slowed" by
cultural issues and the remoteness of the clinic site, the
Chronicle reports, adding that Baylor staff still work out of a
wing in a government hospital. According to Mark Kline,
president of the Baylor program, the new facility likely will be
completed by March 2009. Suzanne Gaudreault, a physician working
at the clinic in Bobo-Dioulasso, said that the clinic
experiences "months and months of delay" over small issues,
adding that "[m]arrying our ways of functioning (with Burkina
ways) has been challenging." According to the Chronicle, the
clinic is the poorest of Baylor's African sites, and Bur