as the recipient for one of its earliest big international grants: $50-million over five years to treat and fight AIDS as part of an unusual alliance with the pharmaceutical giant Merck & Company. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

GABORONE, Botswana -- Catherine had already buried two sisters because of AIDS when she was diagnosed with the dreaded disease. After doctors broke the news, she stopped eating. "I thought that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...