Pat Daoust
About Pat Daoust
Pat Daoust is a registered nurse who has been working in the field of HIV for over 25 years. Pat joined the staff of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, as a health provider educator in the mid-80’s, eventually serving as Director of the Client Service Department until 2000.
For the past 9 years Pat has worked on international HIV related projects in resource-limited settings, primarily in Africa. She participated in the Harvard AIDS Institute Botswana KITSO program, focusing on the education of health care professionals in regard to HIV care and treatment. Pat also led the mobilization of the first group of PLWAs in Botswana, forming the Coping Center for People Living with HIV/AIDS (COCEPWA)… an important advocacy, educational and support organization with 15 centers throughout the country.
Pat also worked with the International Education and Training Center on HIV (I-TECH) in Ethiopia. She directed a team of international nurses in the development of programs that built in-country capacity for the provision of a continuum of care for those living with HIV/AIDS …including educational , advocacy, leadership and mentoring projects. This CDC/PEPFAR HIV/ART Nurse Specialist project is now being implemented by Ethiopian nurse leaders and serves as a model program for other African nations.
Pat joined Physician for Human Rights as the Director of their Global AIDS Campaign in 2007. This multi-year Gates funded campaign advocated for a comprehensive, evidence and rights-based responsive to the global AIDS epidemic with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Under Pat’s leadership special emphasis was given to the promotion of effective US policies that address the most marginalized, especially women and girls. Health Rights=Healthy Women, an advocacy platform design by Pat, addresses the vitally important role that human rights play in the empowerment of women and girls. By partnering with health professional and womens organizations on the ground in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, the campaign brought first-hand expertise to the attention of key policymakers here in the US and has successfully impacted major legislation specifically PEPFAR.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Nurse
Organization
- University of Massachusetts Boston
Work Location(s)
- United States
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Pat Daoust replied to "Global Health Service Partnership" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
So great to see such enthusiasm regarding The Global Health Service Partnership with the Peace Corp. Over the next few weeks please be on the look out for further details regarding this exciting program. A great opportunity for service! We begin meeting with our country partners in Uganda, Malawi and Tanzania within the next few months and recruitment will be initiated late summer. *The official website is: globalhealthservicecorps.org* Pat Daoust MSN RN Chief Nursing Officer ...
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Pat Daoust replied to "Are we visible at the International AIDS meeting?" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
As Inge and Sue Willard have pointed out the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) via the Global Specialty Committee is in the planning process to have a significant presence at IAS. In addition to a satellite session (time TBA), many members have submitted abstracts and we will have a booth...and be seeking volunteers to help staff. We are also planning to have a pre-conference reception on the day before the opening of the ...
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Pat Daoust replied to "course syllabus for Global Health Nursing elective in undergraduate program" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Hello Joe and Sarabeth, My colleague, Eileen Stuart-Shor, and I teach a global health course at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences; U Mass/Boston. This course brings together undergraduate, graduate and doctoral nursing students….course requirements/assignments vary depending on the educational level of the student. A great resource for an intro to global health is the textbook: Skolnik, R. (2008) Essential of Global Health. Boston: Jones and Bartlett. It includes a very comprehensive syllabus that ...
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Pat Daoust replied to "GHDonline Expert Panel: Sharing Nursing Lessons on Improving ART Adherence in Patients with Complex Needs" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Thank you Chris for facilitating this on going conversation. My final note is to acknowledge via all of our conversations how important the issue of adherence is.... as a key factor in health promotion as well as a economically effective use of health care. It has been estimated that the cost of non adherence to treatment plans across the continuum..not just HIV/AIDS... is approximately $300 billion a year ( Di Matteo,2004). In this age of ...
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Pat Daoust replied to "GHDonline Expert Panel: Sharing Nursing Lessons on Improving ART Adherence in Patients with Complex Needs" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Such a great discussion. We have obviously hit on a topic that is both challenging and incredibly important to our patients and how we provide the best possible care. I wanted to revisit Maggie Sullivan’s point regarding HIV related stigma and how for many of our immigrant patients this might stem back to their country of origin. A study was done in 5 African countries where poor adherence to ARVs was directly related to HIV ...
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