Selebi-Phikwe still reeling under HIV/AIDS burden
Thursday, December 02, 2010
At 26.5 percent, highest among females at 31.2 percent and at 26.5 percent among males, the copper/nickel mining town has a worrying prevalence rate. Selebi-Phikwe District AIDS Coordinator Lameck Myengwa said more needs to be done to understand the factors contributing to spiralling infections.
He told Mmegi yesterday that Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) remain a serious problem in the district.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...