Foreign prisoners sue govt over ARVS

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The Botswana Network on Ethics Law and HIV (BONELA) and two prisoners have filed a case in the High Court seeking an order mandating the government to provide non-citizen prisoners with life-saving HIV treatment.

Currently, Botswana provides HIV treatment to prisoners who are Botswana citizens, but requires non-citizen prisoners to pay for the treatment themselves. However, they provide these prisoners with treatment for their opportunistic infections.

“It is irrational and counter-productive to refuse to treat HIV foreign prisoners,” said Cindy Kelemi, the Executive Director of BONELA, which filed a supporting affidavit in the case.

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