Batswana join global search for HIV cure

After making international headlines for becoming only the second country in the world to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets, Botswana could be forgiven for resting on her laurels for a little bit.

After all, achieving the targets is a milestone victory in the four-decade long fight against HIV/AIDS, a battle that has cost thousands of lives and billions of Pula. Announced nearly a decade ago as a way of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, the United Nation’s 95-95-95 targets challenge all nations to ensure that by 2025, 95% of all people living with HIV know their status, 95% of those who are diagnosed are on ARVs, and 95% of those who are on ARVs have viral load suppression.