Phikwe AIDs Rate Puzzles Researchers

Monday, June 22, 2009

SELEBI-PHIKWE: "What is wrong with Selebi-Phikwe?" asks the Selebi-Phikwe District AIDS Coordinator, Lamech Myengwa, as we settle down in his spacious office for an interview this week.

He was bold and sincere that Selebi-Phikwe continues to lead with the highest HIV prevalence rate in Botswana at 26.5 percent and a high incidence rate of 4.7percent.

The results were recently established by the Botswana HIV/AIDS Impact Survey III (BIAS III). According to BIAS II, Selebi-Phikwe had a prevalence rate of 23 percent.

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