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Penn-Botswana Program News: The new research building at Princess Marina Hospital will have a ground breaking ceremony on Nov 21, 2008. Construction is about to start!

Botswana Overview

Botswana has one of the highest prevalence rates of HIV in the world with 17% infection rate overall, and 34% of women between the ages 15-49 infected by the disease
Since July 2001, Penn Infectious Diseases Faculty have participated in the rollout of the national Botswana antiretroviral program
In January 2004, Penn received funding from PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relieve) to provide care on the inpatient medical wards at the Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) in Gaborone , the largest public hospital in the nation
In January 2005, Penn was invited to expand its involvement in inpatient care at PMH and initiate a similar program at the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital in Francistown , the second largest city in Botswana and the site of a large public hospital
The PEPFAR-funded program has expanded to include outreach to 8 District Hospitals around Gaborone and Francistown , an HIV-TB educational, prevention and treatment program, and a cervical cancer-screening program in HIV infected women.
Approximately 50 Penn medical students and residents spend 4-6 week electives on the medical wards at PMH each year, supported by funds from the Department of Medicine, the UPHS and the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Penn faculty are helping to design the undergraduate curriculum for the new medical school in Botswana , a rotating internship and an internal medicine residency training program
Penn undergraduates are doing a "Semester Abroad" at the University of Botswana , and Penn undergraduate and graduate students are offered summer internships in Botswana
In January 2008, pediatricians from Penn and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will provide care and infectious diseases expertise to children admitted to PMH

For additional information, please view the following links to:

Botswana-Penn Partnership: http://www.pennbotswana.com/

Botswana and Penn Medicine: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/idd/bots.html

Botswana and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=87228

Global Health Program at Penn: http://www.med.upenn.edu/globalhealth/index.shtml

Division of Infectious Diseases of The University of Pennsylvania: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/idd/