Productive age suffer hardest AIDS blow in Botswana

Giving a presentation yesterday at the launch of the findings of the survey at Phakalane Golf Estate, chief demographer, Dr Peter Ubomba-Jaswa said that 9,318 people livening with HIV/AIDS died though they were not sick for more than two months. Another 26 percent of those who died were sick for less than a month.

"Reportedly AIDS accounted for 20.8 percent of the deaths, 25.2 and 16.2 percent in the urban and rural areas respectively. Male deaths made up 57.1 percent," he said.