U.S. military medical team supports Botswana HIV prevention efforts

Aug 16 2012

In an article on the U.S. Department of Defense webpage, the American Forces Press Service reports on how a U.S. military medical team is helping the Botswana Defense Force "to promote Botswana's national program of education, HIV screening and male circumcision surgeries to stem what's become a national epidemic," according to Army Col. Michael Kelly, an Army Reserve surgeon deployed in Botswana from the Army Reserve Medical Command in Washington. "The Botswana Ministry of Health's goal, Kelly said, is to bring the number of new HIV diagnoses to zero by 2016, ... an ambitious plan, in light of an HIV rate that has skyrocketed since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Botswana in 1985," the news service writes (Miles, 8/14).