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Tiffany gives $2 million for HIV/AIDS treatment

October 21, 2008

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Philadelphia—Tiffany and Co. has given the Botswana-UPenn Partnership a $2 million grant to join with the Botswana Ministry of Health in building a facility for HIV/AIDS treatment in Botswana and to support the University of Pennsylvania's health-care initiative through clinical care, education and research.

Set for construction on the grounds of the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, the new four-story building will house a general pediatric outpatient clinic and an adult HIV clinic, along with educational facilities, research labs, offices and an on-call facility for health-care practitioners.

According to Tiffany Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael J. Kowalski, both Tiffany and Co. and the Tiffany and Co. Foundation have long championed socially and environmentally responsible mining practices, as well as the social and economic development of communities in which mining takes place.

"There is no better example of this than the Tiffany and Co. Foundation's support of the Botswana-UPenn Partnership," Kowalski said in a media release. "The toll that HIV/AIDS has taken on the people of Botswana is enormous, and our support of this new treatment center is one of the ways we can share with the people of Botswana the benefits of the country's enormous natural wealth."

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership is also involved in helping Botswana establish the curriculum for internship and internal-medicine residency training at its own medical school, which enrolled its first students this fall at the University of Botswana. In the past, the country sent students away for medical training, with few returning after graduation.

"With this new facility and support from The Tiffany and Co. Foundation, Penn can help support the training of medical and health professionals and continue our clinical work in Botswana," Botswana-UPenn Partnership Director Harvey Friedman said in the release.

Established in 2000, The Tiffany and Co. Foundation provides grants to non-profit organizations working in two main program areas: the environment and the arts.
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