5 days in country and we are finally starting to sleep through the night. Unlike typical PC cohorts, we are housed in a Gaborone hotel during the week. Prior to our arrival the country had horrible floods that made the road to the normal training center and town impassable. There is another cohort that arrived a week earlier – they are a team of healthcare workers who were evacuated from Mozambique due to the civil unrest there and will now be sent into the countryside of Botswana.
The U.S.AID closure has ramifications for all of them. Did you know that more than a decade ago the US responded to Botswana’s request for help in containing the AIDS epidemic? Teams of US healthcare workers set out to curtail the spread of the disease (with medicine provided by other countries). By 2030, the % of the population with HIV should be down to 2-5%. The programs administering these programs are PEPFAR and PEP. We were able to meet the U.S. Ambassador last week and he brought us up to speed on developments in these programs in Botswana.
Can you name this hill in Gaborone? Hint: it is in #1 Ladies Detective Agency
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