Bots vacillates as WHO declares HIV treatment

Friday, October 16, 2015

PALAPYE: While World Health Organisation (WHO) recently declared treatment available to individuals living with HIV regardless of their CD4 count, Botswana is yet to implement this new development.

Speaking at a two-day New Direction in Global Health Seminar held in Serowe yesterday, Centre for Disease Control programme officer, Mpho Letebele said that the matter is still at the Ministry of Health and they are hoping for the implementation of the uncapped treatment.

He explained that the recommendations are a major step forward in the global fight against HIV infection.

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