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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Botswana has reaffirmed its commitment to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030 with the recent launch of two new five-year strategies. The third National Strategic Framework for HIV ...

UN World Children's Day on Nov 20 is an annual reminder that every child deserves the chance not just to survive, but to ...

Six years ago, Botswana had the highest HIV prevalence in the world. Nearly two in five adults — as many as three in five in some regions — were HIV-positive, and in less than a decade, life ...

GABORONE, Botswana -- President Bush pledged to the nation with the world's highest AIDS infection rate that it will have a strong partner in his administration in fighting the disease. "You will not ...

* Drug trial to be adjusted * Declining HIV rate in Botswana one factor By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - U.S. officials said on Thursday they will give up on a ...

GABORONE, Botswana - Four years ago, Refilwe sat in a hospital room watching over her tiny AIDS-wasted baby daughter and prepared for the end. "That Christmas Day I was looking at her and thinking: ...

President Bush arrives in Botswana, where nearly four out of 10 adults is HIV positive, to promote his proposed $15-billion plan to fight global AIDS. Bush also meets with President Festus Mogae to ...

The July 1 front-page story "Botswana's Gains Against AIDS Put U.S. Claims to Test" mischaracterized the partnership between Botswana and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. It also did ...