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Twenty-one years ago, the Johnson & Johnson Burn Treatment Center opened its doors at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.  The hospital is located in Soweto, a primarily poor urban neighborhood of Johannesburg whose residents were subject to discrimination and violence under apartheid. When it opened,  the burn treatment center was the only one of its kind in Africa, and in an area more commonly known for poverty and racial tensions. In two decades, the center has seen nearly 12,000 patients and performed more than 9,000 procedures.