Offices and Departments

Regional Environment and Health Office

The Southern African Hub

The Regional Environment and Health Office (REHO), the Gaborone Hub, follows EST and HIV/AIDS issues in 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 and HIV/AIDS projects funded by State and other USG agencies.

HIV/AIDS: PRESIDENT’S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR)

Objectives: To provide care and support to 165,000 people (including orphans), and to provide treatment for 33,000 individuals, by the end of 2008.

REHO works with CDC and USAID, in partnership with the Government of Botswana, U.S. private partners, local and international agencies and non-governmental organizations to provide technical assistance, consultation, and funding; implement programs; and perform research for the care and support for people with HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR provides 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. Specific Emergency Plan interventions occur in the areas of prevention counseling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, blood and injection safety, palliative care (including TB/HIV), support of orphans and vulnerable children, HIV testing, provision of antiretroviral drugs and drug delivery services, laboratory support, and monitoring & evaluation.

ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND TECNHOLOGY

REHO is engaged in the following projects:
• Tri-nation management of Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa (LMNN).
• Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) program in Botswana.
• Development of the five-nation Kavango – Upper Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KaZa).
• CBNRM projects in the Okavango Delta and in Angola.
• Biotechnology and coal-bed methane/clean energy programs.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mr. Ted Pierce REHO
Tel: (267) 395-3982, x5257
Fax: (267) 395-6504
E-mail: piercets@state.gov

HIV/AIDS Assistant
Tel: (267) 395-3982, x5379
Fax: (267) 395-6504

EST Assistant
Tel: (267) 395-3982, x5378
Fax: (267) 395-6504