Retired Tlou vows to keep fighting HIV/AIDS

Tlou recently said her goodbyes
Tlou recently said her goodbyes

After a career spent in the trenches fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS in Botswana and the continent as a whole, Professor Sheila Tlou recently announced her retirement. However, as Mmegi Correspondent, NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE reports, Tlou is not tired and has not retired from fighting the epidemic

Kwete, as her loved ones call her, has retired from being the director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, a position she was appointed to in 2010.

Her career has been one of firsts, as she was the first nurse to join national politics after being chosen as a specially elected Member of Parliament. She was also the first nurse to become the Minister of Health in 2004.

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