Nation & World Setback in the fight against pediatric HIV Funding cut disrupts Botswana-based effort to help patients control illness without regular treatments Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer August 19, 2025 4 min read Roger Shapiro.Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer For more than 20 years, Harvard infectious disease specialist Roger Shapiro has fought HIV on the ground in Botswana, where the rate of infection exceeded 30 percent in some areas of the country in the 1990s. Progress has be...
