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Welcome to ACHAP

Established in 2000, The African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) is a country-led, public-private development partnership between the Government of Botswana, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and MSD/Merck Company Foundation committed to enhancing Botswana’s national response to HIV/AIDS...

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ACHAP First Quarter Progress Review Meeting

The 2013 first quarter programme review meeting was held on the 16 th April 2013 for the South region in Gaborone and the 18 th April 2013 for the Northern region at Palapye. In stating the objectives of the meeting, Director Programmes, Dr Frank...

ACHAP hosts the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine

On Thursday 02 May 2013 a delegation from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine led by Associate Professor Jason Blackard. When giving an overview of their visit to Botswana professor Blackard stated that the University of Cincinnati has...

PrePex™ device for Male Circumcision: A new study in Botswana

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States, the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (ACHAP), and Jhpiego are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot research study to evaluate the PrePex™ device for adult...

PrePex Information Sheet

What is medical male circumcision? Medical Male circumcision is a surgical procedure carried out by trained medical personnel in a clean setting to remove the foreskin of the penis. This procedure helps to protect men from HIV and other sexually...

ACHAP Appoints Chief Executive Officer

Dr Jerome Mafeni is the Chief Executive Officer at ACHAP. He is a Health Professional with specialization in Peadiatric Dentistry and a strong background in Public Health. Prior to Joining ACHAP he held a dual position with RTI International in...

Safe Male Circumcision Mini Campaign in Manyana

The Manyana Safe Male Circumcision (SMC), mini campaign was organized by Moshupa District Health Management Team (DHMT) in partnership with ACHAP, Manyana clinic management and the Manyana Village Multi-sectoral AIDS Committee (VMSAC).The campaign...

Demand Creation Activities in Manyana

Demand creation-a process undertaken to educate community members on the benefits of SMC with the intention of getting them to demand the service and effectively refer them for service delivery is a critical milestone for SMC uptake. Demand creation...

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ACHAP Phase II Programmes

Substainable Treatment

To systematically transition the support for the programmatic aspects of the ART treatment programme to the Government of Botswana by December 2011 and enable the national programme to sustain quality and maintain treatment coverage. ACHAP's support of the treatment programme during Phase I of programme implementation yielded significant gains in terms of national scale-up, coverage and reduction of mortality due to HIV/AIDS. Other partners including PEPFAR and the Clinton Foundation... Read more

TB HIV Co-treatment

To strengthen the National TB Programme in order to improve access to and utilization of integrated HIV and TB services on a national scale by 2014 TB and HIV are global emergencies whose deadly interaction affect millions and threaten global public health. HIV infection is a leading risk factor for TB through promoting the progression of latent and recent infections of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) into active disease. It also increases the rate of recurrence of TB. Botswana has one of the severe most TB epidemics globally with... Read more

Safe Male Circumcision

To support the scale up of safe male circumcision among HIV negative males aged 15-29 years to reach 27.2% (127, 000) of national target by 2014. ACHAP has committed to support the Government of Botswana's efforts in scaling-up Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) services to reach the intended national target of 467,262 (0-49 years) by 2016. ACHAP will directly contribute towards reaching the target of 127 000 (27.2%) of the national... Read more

Knowledge Generation

To improve generation, utilization and sharing of strategic information and knowledge from HIV/AIDS and TB programmes in Botswana in order to inform and improve programmes in Botswana and the region by 2014. Strategic Information Management has been identified as a priority area in the second National Strategic Framework (NSF II) with the aim of ensuring improvements in information collection, processing and presentation to enhance programme management, knowledge creation and sharing among policy makers; program planners; program managers and implementers; funding agencies and the... Read more