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About Us

About Baylor-Swaziland

Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Swaziland (BCMCF-SD), known as Baylor-Swaziland, is a not-for-profit child health and development organization based at the Baylor College of Medicine - Bristol Myers-Squibb Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence (COE) in Mbabane, Swaziland.

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We provide child-focused and family-centered HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services; tuberculosis (TB) screening, control and treatment; cervical and breast cancer screening; and treatment for other concurrent diseases. We also offer mother-and-child health services; health professional training and clinical research; and integrated, comprehensive women’s health services to women with HIV, including family planning and cervical cancer screening.

 

Baylor-Swaziland is the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) primary pediatric HIV/AIDS  and TB (Including MDR TB) care and treatment provider, battling against the highest HIV prevalence in the world (41% among mothers aged 15-49 receiving antenatal care) and caring for almost half of all children on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the country.

Our Vision

A nation with healthy and fulfilled children, adolescents and their families.

Our Mission

To provide high quality family-centred pediatric and adolescent health care, education and clinical research in Swaziland.

Our Values

  • Excellence

  • Child Centeredness

  • Integrity

  • Accountability

  • Teamwork 

  • Partnership

  • Ethical

  • Commitment

Our History

2006
2009
2015

His Majesty King Mswati III presides over the opening of the Baylor College of Medicine Bristol-Mysers Squibb Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence-Swaziland Baylor-Swaziland on February 24, 2006.

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During 2009-2010, satellite clinics at Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital in Manzini and Hlathikhulu Hospital in Hlathikhulu opened and became fully functional, with more than 1,500 patients across the two sites. Each satellite location is staffed with a physician, nurses and support staff. These sites also support active teen clubs.

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Through a partnership between Baylor-Swaziland and Texas Children's Hospital Global Tuberculosis Program, the Tuberculosis Centre of Excellence is opened on May 8, 2015 by His Excellency The Right Honourable Prime Minister Dr. Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini.

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