Botswana-UPenn Partnership with Dr. Harvey Friedman
Channel: University of Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-07-11

Ten years ago, the Botswana-UPenn Partnership began as a program training doctors and nurses treating HIV/AIDS patients. Now it also includes research, additional academic opportunities and telemedicine.

Harvey Friedman, chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at Penn Medicine and director of the Partnership, says when the Merck Company Foundation made antiretroviral drugs available to HIV/AIDS patients in Botswana, and joined with the Gates Foundation to help the African nation fight the disease, it asked Penn to help train the clinical providers.

Initially, Penn funded one doctor part-time. Today, there are 11 full-time physicians among 70 full-time staffers in the program. Most are citizens of Botswana.

Read the full article here: http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/spotlights/botswana-upenn-partnership-celebrating-10-years

Video by Kurtis Sensenig
Photos by Ryan Littman-Quinn