Big Up To Earlier HIV Treatment

What this means is that all Batswana diagnosed HIV positive will receive antiretrovirals earlier than  reaching the 350 CD4 count, which used to be the starting point for treatment. This approach will see approximately 100,000 more people enrolling in the Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) this month. In the past, there have been instances where people are enrolled in the therapy when they are very weak.

This had a number of implications for instance nutritional complications hence government dug deeper in public coffers to provide food baskets. Moreover, ill-health has contributed to lack of productivity as no human being can deliver optimally when unwell. The previous CD4 count cut-off opened room for stigma, as some people would get treatment when their immune system was at a low.