Rotary Photo Friday

Rotarian Stephen Nicholas has implemented programs that aim to eliminate pediatric HIV/AIDS in La Romana, Dominican Republic, where the woman and her four-year-old daughter featured in this photo received treatment.

Nicholas is a pediatric AIDS specialist who has helped to reduce infant HIV in New York City, and is now working to eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission in the Dominican Republic.

Nicholas began a family AIDS clinic in La Romana, Dominican Republic in 1999, which is run by the International Family AIDS Program. 

The Yonkers club, the Rotary Club of La Romana, and District 7230 (New York) launched the Mother-Baby AIDS Project in the Dominican Republic in 2006 to expand the International Family Aids Program. 

To read more about the project visit: Clinic takes aim at infant AIDS

Photo courtesy of Nicholas.