The search for answers behind falling condom use

Everyone remembers the ABCs of the HIV prevention: Abstain, Be Faithful and Condomise. When the pandemic struck in the mid-1980s, those were the little weapons local public health authorities had to use in the fight against a seemingly unstoppable disease that threatened to wipe out the entire nation.

All campaigns were centred on the condom, the frontline and physical barrier in the fight against HIV. Batswana, together with the rest of the world, grew accustomed to condoms and began to use them, even as government and other partners fought to roll them out countrywide.