Ministry of Health concerned by misconceptions

These misconstrued views were very pronounced in a recent snap survey Mmegi conducted recently on the declining rate of condom use in the country. Since the inception of the SMC campaign, this belief has been popularly held.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS recommended that SMC be added as an HIV/AIDS intervention strategy in countries with high HIV prevalence, generalised heterosexual HIV epidemics, and low levels of male circumcision where the intervention is likely to have the greatest public health impact. Botswana has been identified as one of the 14 priority countries with this profile together with Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.