BONELA welcomes NACA�s overtures to gays, prostitutes

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Good news but: Kelemi welcomes the news but has reservations

The Botswana Network on Ethics Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) has welcomed the decision by the government to spread the HIV/AIDS message to marginalised groups.

Recently, the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) placed HIV protection adverts targeted at the gay community. Another advert was aimed at clients of commercial sex workers, advising them to use a condom during their sexual encounters.

In an interview, BONELA executive director, Cindy Kelemi said her organisation had been calling for such intervention “for more than a decade” but no one had been willing to listen.

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