• Screening Clinic – Provides testing services to newborns and children as well as pre- and post-test counseling. The Screening Clinic sees approximately 10 patients per day.  
• Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinic (PIDC) – Provides highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) and Adherence Counseling for HIV-positive children and their families. As part of the Government of Botswana’s National ARV Program (MASA), HAART treatment is free of charge for all HIV-positive children.  This clinic also runs an ‘In-Reach’ program, which provides extra support (such as weekly home visits) to children with adherence difficulty, as well as a Challenge Clinic, which targets children failing second line ARV therapy.  Since PIDC’s inception, the Clinic has enrolled approximately 1,500 children in HAART.
• Adolescent Clinic – Serves approximately 275 adolescents with counseling on issues such as living positively with HIV, dealing with stigma, relationships, age-appropriate HIV education and adherence. The Adolescent Clinic runs the Youth Alive (“Basha ba a Tshela”) Programme as well as a Teen Club that brings over 200 HIV-positive adolescents together monthly for fun weekend activities.
• Family Model Clinic – Attends to children and families within the same clinic in order to support a family-centered model of care and to minimize the burden of multiple doctor visits for each infected member of the family. In 2008, the FMC served 373 families. The number of patients lost to follow-up in FMC has declined substantially over the years, from 52 in 2004 to 7 in 2008.
• Nutrition and Diet services are part of all COE’s outreach, as good nutrition is critical to the health of those with compromised immune systems.
• Research – The BANA-II study, started in 2004, is a randomized comparative trial of two methods of HAART treatment for HIV-infected children.  The “Voice” of the HIV Infected and Affected School Age Children in Botswana is a cross-sectional psychosocial study that will include 900 HIV-infected children, 450 affected children, and 2000 teachers in qualitative and quantitative interviews.
• Education Outreach in ARV sites around the country and abroad. Programs include the KITSO-Baylor Paediatric HIV/AIDS Training for health care providers, the ‘Aunties and Uncles’ Training Program for training of laypersons in pediatric HIV/AIDS care, Expert Patient Training to encourage HIV-positive mentors to offer peer education and support, School Teacher Training Programme to increase the comfort level of school staff to discuss HIV/AIDS, and a Visiting Scholars Programme allowing  international physicians to learn how to care for children living with HIV. The COE also trains Botswana Ministry of Health-affiliated nurses, interns, medical officers, and specialists through clinical attachments at the Centre.
• Other programs include case-based decentralized mentorship in hospitals and clinics throughout the country, Tuberculosis care and diagnosis for complications of TB/HIV disease and multi-drug resistant TB in children.

WEBSITE: Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence