Foreign prisoners sue govt over ARVS
Monday, February 10, 2014
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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