Botswana making progress towards achieving UNAIDS target

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The recurrent and development budget proposals of 2018-2019 for the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoH&W) have shown that Botswana is making a progress towards achieving UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets.

Giving his Committee of Supply Speech recently, Assistant Minister of Health and Wellness Dikgang Makgalemele said the country adopted new innovations like HIV self-testing and implementation modalities, which were being worked out.

He pointed out that the ministry, with the assistance of PEPFAR, had been able to develop a Treat-All communication strategy and it was being disseminated to the districts to assist in improving uptake of this initiative.

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