Professor Sheila Tlou, Botswana’s Minister of Health, received the Women Leading Change Award for her more than two and half decades of leadership in health and gender equality that includes founding the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa and successfully lobbying for Botswana to become the first country to start a programme to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.

The Minister of Health has been awarded the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) President's award. The award is in recognition of her outstanding contributions to health and health care.

The Academy's 1,500 members - known as Fellows - are nursing's most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice and research. The academy serves both the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nursing knowledge.

Professor Miriam Were, chair of the National AIDS Control Council of Kenya, has been named this year’s Japan's outstanding achiever (laureate) for the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes. The award honours individuals with outstanding achievements in the fields of medical research and services to combat infectious and other diseases on the continent.

Professor Were who is also a co-founder of the UZIMA Foundation will take home Japanese Yen 100 million (USD 1 million), a citation and a medal for her award.

The Kenyan scientist received the World YWCA Women Leading Change award for her lifelong commitment to working with disadvantaged people to improve the quality of their lives; her innovative approaches to community based empowerment; and for her current leadership in driving the national HIV and AIDS response in Kenya.

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