Youth, men still reluctant to test for HIV

The country coordinator for UNAIDS, Dr Sung Gang, has expressed concern at the low number of youth and adult males who go for HIV testing in Botswana.

Gang said this at the Mayor’s 90-90-90-test drive campaign held at the Gaborone bus rank on Saturday. The campaign, which was enunciated at the UNAIDS International AIDS conference held in Melbourne, Australia late last year, follows through key steps considered critical to better health for HIV positive people, and to limiting new infections.

The philosophy is that 90 percent of people must get tested, 90 percent HIV positive people should be on treatment and 90 percent of people on treatment should have suppressed viral loads.

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