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Outside of the lab, Bjork also played violin in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for three years and contributed to several campus publications. He also took a year off after his sophomore year to work at a pediatric HIV/AIDS clinic in Gaborone, Bostwana with a Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Public Service Fellowship...

Author: By NICOLE SAVDIE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Claims One Marshall Scholar | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...away. Botswana, which shares a border with Zimbabwe, has for decades been mainland Africa's brightest star, a country that has gone from dustbowl poverty to middle income status in a generation, where elections are peaceful, politicians retire voluntarily, civil society is vibrant and where natural resources (in Bostwana's case, diamonds) are not a curse or a spur to corruption and violent theft, but a blessing shared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festus Mogae: Africa's Good Leader | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...dosing ARVs, and for handling side effects." After learning that only five to seven percent of AIDS-affected children are actually receiving drug treatments for their disease, Kline partnered with the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation in 2003 to build and operate the first dedicated pediatric AIDS center in Bostwana. "I thought, five to seven percent is lousy, it's nothing to be proud of," says Kline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making House Calls - to Africa | 11/25/2006 | See Source »

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