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He noted that by 2016, about 220,600 patients are expected to be on the programme.
We shudder to imagine what the unsustainability portends for the nation. Fresh in our minds are the high mortality rates and burials that were a common feature of Botswana before the advent of the MASA ARV programme. At that time, HIV/AIDS-related mortality accounted for the majority of funerals throughout the country.

Surely nobody wants to go back to those dreadful days of endless deaths and the extreme mental distress they brought to bear on the bereaved. Both the infected and the affected succumbed to the anguish. The MASA programme stemmed this tide and curtailed premature deaths. But for how long this trend can be maintained depends on the conduct - individually and collectively - of Batswana.