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, which has long been at the forefront of global efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, declared a public health emergency on ...

Botswana has been getting a lot of calls lately from across the African continent, prodding the nation — once “at risk of extinction” from HIV — to tell the world how they did the impossible: squash ...

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 ...

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 ...

Developing nations are closely monitoring efforts in Botswana, the first African country to both routinely offer confidential HIV testing and provide AIDS drugs to all who need them. AIDS in the ...

* 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 ...

In coordination with the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Gilead will make its twice-yearly HIV prophylactic Yeztugo available to resource-limited countries "at no profit." ...

LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - An HIV drug first approved less than three years ago is being rolled out in Botswana as a core medicine for newly diagnosed patients, following the largest ever tender ...

Sara Herschander is a fellow for Future Perfect, Vox’s section on making the world a better place. She writes about global health, philanthropy, labor, and social movements. Botswana has been getting ...