In Botswana, Step to Cut AIDS Proves a Formula for Disaster
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NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice...
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Millions of people with HIV will die unless it is made easier for them to get the drugs they need, experts warn.
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Ever since Botswana recorded its first HIV case 19-years-ago, this nation has never been the same. The country has moved from the denial that marked the first few years after the discovery of the virus; the
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FRANCISTOWN, Botswana -- The young and hip at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic meet, drink and pair off under the knowing gaze of bartender Brian Khumalo. Sometimes they first buy a three-pack of condoms from the box he keeps by the liquor, sometimes not.
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Giving HIV-positive children in Africa a daily dose of antibiotic could nearly halve the death rate.
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AIDS-stricken Southern African  nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to  fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS  agency said on Tuesday.
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Tuesday publicly lamented the loss of two of his children to Aids, telling parliament the government&#39;s response to the pandemic was disastrous.
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Botswana President Festus Mogae issued a  blunt message to his people Wednesday on HIV/AIDS: abstain from  unsafe sex or die.
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The usual war of words followed hard on the heels of the latest statistics on HIV/Aids in South Africa this week - but the tragic bottom line remained that more than 5 million people are infected with HIV.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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South Africa may lose the HIV battle as infection and death rates outpace treatment, Unicef warns.
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Blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki after an urgent appeal in South Africa was destroyed because it was regarded as a health risk, it emerged yesterday.
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Efforts to increase the use of condoms in Madagascar to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS have failed dramatically, largely because of the opposition of church leaders.
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Botswana's capital offers an example of one city's efforts to manage explosive growth.
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Botswana President Festus Mogae pledged to work hard on AIDS and unemployment on Tuesday as he was sworn in for a second term after winning an election praised by
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The death rate of children infected with HIV in Africa could be cut in half if they were put on an inexpensive antibiotic, according to a study published in The Lancet.