WI State Lab of Hygiene Scientific Seminar

In Botswana, where an estimated 17 percent of the country’s 1.8 million people are infected with HIV, inadequate lab systems represented a major barrier to mounting a successful HIV control program. Since 2001, WSLH epidemiologist John Pfister has worked as a consultant to assist the CDC and the Botswana Ministry of Health to strengthen the nation’s public health lab network. John will describe the challenges, accomplishments and ongoing activities of this international partnership.