School children listen to the address by The Right Honorable the Prime Minister Mr. Pakalitha Bethuel Mosisili during the Sod Turning Ceremony for the expansion of the Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Satellite Center of Excellence, Monday, April 28, 2008, in Butha-Buthe. (Photo by Smiley N. Pool)
The Lesotho Children's Clinical Center of Excellence at night. This site is within 2 km of Lesotho's only adult HIV/AIDS treatment center and the National Nurse Training Center. The government has plans to build a national referral hospital just across the road from the children's center.
Program Update: May 1, 2008: Through BIPAI's partnership with the government of Lesotho, construction has begun on the first of ten satellite clinics in remote areas of the country. The satellite clinics will reinforce the work of BIPAI's state-of-the-art center of excellence in the capital of Maseru. Prime Minister Pakalitha Bethuel Mosisili and members of his Cabinet joined 3,000 people for the ground breaking event in Butha-Buthe. This ground breaking event was symbolic of the start of construction on all ten satellite clinics. Read more
The Baylor-Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Clinical Center of Excellence in Maseru, Lesotho is open and thriving. Care and treatment services are provided to over 2,000 HIV-infected Basotho children and their families at this site and its affiliated clinics.
