Sex workers inaccessible

FRANCISTOWN: Delegates at a two-day HIV/AIDS meeting in Francistown repeatedly brought up the issue of inaccessibility of sex workers as one of the threats to the national quest to achieve zero infection by 2016.

The workshop's main purpose was to roll out the National Operational Plan for Scaling Up HIV Prevention in Botswana to districts in the northern part of Botswana as well as to fine tune it. A similar workshop to cover the southern region is planned for Jwaneng this weekend, according to the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) officials at the Tati River Lodge event.

The delegates spent a gruelling two days in group discussions, whose finding were finally announced by appointed individuals from the groups. The discussions were meant to plug the gaps in the plan to be known as Thebe le Segai (Shield and Spear) when it is branded.

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Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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