Botswana Achieves MDG-6 On HIV

At a launch held at UB last week, the Minister of Health, Professor Sheila Tlou, said the objective of the project was to develop a pool of researchers with the necessary skills to do research on the prevention of HIV/AIDS and to design group specific, age appropriate and culturally relevant effective intervention programs for adolescents in schools, churches and those living with HIV/AIDS.

She said the UB-UPenn Adolescent research program carried a lot of hope for the nation. Tlou said in the 26 years the world has been fighting HIV/AIDS, behavioural change has become the central strategy in HIV prevention. Hence she said this program and its focus on prevention comes at the right time when stakeholders in the fight against HIV/AIDS are mobilising resources for realising Vision 2016 and the goals of the National Strategic Framework (NSF) for HIV/AIDS.