Let's learn from Malawi

In fact, we call upon the Botswana government to adopt a similar legislation to help deal with some bogus and unscrupulous institutions that have lately flooded the country. For instance, it is not uncommon to come across advertisements in local newspapers in which the so-called healers make unfounded claims on how they can help people overcome the killer disease. In some cases, they even claim that they make those confined to the wheelchair walk while the sick are healed just on the basis of their faith in God!

In Malawi, the government is said to be examining a draft legislation aimed at ridding the HIV/AIDS-plagued Southern African country of quacks claiming to cure the virus through such remedies as "sex with virgins".