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% in some areas of the country in the 1990s ...

DUKWI CAMP, 12 June (PlusNews) - Dukwi refugee camp sprawls for 20sq.km into the Botswana bush along the road between Francistown, the capital, and the Zambian border to the north, but there is little ...

Botswana joined the global community in commemorating World AIDS Day on December 1, 2024, in Tlokweng village, with His Honour the Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe lauding the country’s achievements in ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Festus Mogae, Botswana's former president who made a national priority of the fight against HIV and AIDS during his tenure from 1998 to 2008, has died at the age of 86, the ...

The African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) played a major role in initiating Botswana’s antiretroviral (ARV) program in 2001. ACHAP is a prominent public-private partnership involving ...

As former presidents, prime ministers, and public health leaders, we are deeply concerned about the state of the global ...

Nearly 25 years ago, the AIDS epidemic was so severe in Botswana that its former president told the UN General Assembly that his country was “threatened with extinction.” That stark assessment caught ...