NACA welcomes homosexuals

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Head of National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA), Christopher Molomo has revealed that though in Botswana homosexuality is outlawed, NACA involves homosexuals in its work to fight HIV/AIDS.

He said that they also provide counselling and treatment to homosexuals.  He said that all people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS are treated equally regardless of how they got infected or affected by the disease. "We do not ask anybody how they got infected. We will not turn away people who have been infected through engaging in sexual activities with same sex partners," he said.

Molomo was speaking at a briefing on World AIDS Day, which will be commemorated in Kasane on December 1. He said that they usually go to districts to campaign against new infections and to drive behaviour change. Molomo said that they started responding to the HIV/AIDS challenge at a time when the mortality rate was very high.  He said that so far 83 percent of people who need ARVs are already receiving them. He holds that this treatment has significantly reduced mortality rate, saying that only less than 10 percent of those on treatment die from the disease.

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