Although it has one of the most dynamic economies in Africa, Botswana also has one of the world’s highest known rates of HIV/AIDS infection. In this country of 1.56 million, an estimated 350,000 people are living with the disease. The largest segment of HIV infected citizens are between the ages of 15 and 49. In response, the Botswana government is developing comprehensive programs to cope with both the disease and the region’s shortage of physicians and medical personnel. In conjunction with Harvey Friedman, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Penn Medical School and director of the Penn Program in Botswana, Botswana’s Ministry of Health has authorized a center at Wharton — the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center — to help the country develop a more efficient system to manage HIV/AIDS therapy and monitor HIV patients.…