Offices and Departments

Regional Environment and Health Office

The Southern African Hub

 REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH OFFICE

       
   THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN HUB

The Regional Environment and Health Office (REHO), the Gaborone Hub, follows ESTH issues in health programs including Avian Influenza, Malaria, TB, and HIV/AIDS through PEPFAR.  The hub covers the following countries:  Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, all of which are members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). REHO advocates USG positions in international negotiations with key decision-makers in the Southern African Region; works with U.S. Government environmental, technical, and scientific and health agencies in their efforts in Southern Africa; and supports and implements regional and bilateral environmental programs.

PEPFAR provides funding for technical assistance, consultation, program support and capacity building to the Government of Botswana, NGOs and other partners to achieve sustainable expansion of access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care services.

ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, TECNHOLOGY and HEALTH (ESTH)

REHO is engaged in the following projects:

• Tri-national management of invasive weeds in the Shongwe-Shire-Zambezi Basin.

• Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) program in Botswana.

• Development of the five nation Kavango - Upper Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Areas                        (KAZA- TFCA).

• CBNRM projects in the Okavango Delta.

• Climate Change and desertification

   CONTACT INFORMATION

Regional Environment and Health Office (REHO)

Mr. Anthony Woods

Tel: (267) 395-3982, x2257

Fax: (267) 395-6504

E-mail: Woodsac@state.gov

 
HIV/AIDS and Health Assistant

Ms Dorothy Tlagae

Tel: (267) 395-3982, x2379

Fax: (267) 395-6504

Email: TlagaeDK@states.gov

ESTH Assistant

Ms Phatsimo Lobelo

Tel: (267) 395-3982, x2378

Fax: (267) 395-6504

Email: LobeloP@states.gov

- Related Links -

1. HIV/AIDS and PEPFAR • National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA): www.naca.gov.bw President Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR): http:www.pepfar.gov • Botswana Network of AIDS Service Organisation (BONASO):www.bonaso.org.bw • Botswana Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS(BONEPWA):www.bonepwa.botsnet.co.bw • Botswana Network of Ethics,Law and HIV/AIDS(BONELA:www.bonela.botsnet.co.bw • Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):www.cdc.gov • Office of Global AIDS Coordinator:www.state.gov/s/gac 2.EST • International Conservation Union Botswana (IUCN-Botswana):www.iucnbot.bw • International Conservation Union-Regional Office of Southern Africa (IUCNROSA):http://www.iucnrosa.org.zw • Okavango Integrated River Basin Management Project (IRBM):www.irbm.co.bw • Environment Watch Botswana:www.somatiko.org.bw • Conservation International (CI):http//www.conservation.org • Southern Africa Development (SADC):http://www.sadc.int •  SADC/DANIDA Regional Water Sector Program :www.sadcwater.com • Kalahari Conservation Society (KCS)ww.kcs.org.bw • Government of Botswana:http://www.gov.bw.html Department of Environmental Affairs Environmental Information Systems ( DEA EIS) http://www.eis.gov.bw Department of Environmental affairs : http: //www.environbotswana.gov • Bureau for Oceans, Environment and Science (OES):http://www.state.gov/g/oes H1NI and H5N1 - Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):http://www.cdc.gov and World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/