Word: botswana
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...churches and because many religious scriptures promote faithful relationships. Green pointed to a homegrown program in Uganda to combat AIDS, which emphasized fidelity and mutual monogamy. According to Green, fewer people had more than one partner in the previous year and the prevalence of HIV has decreased. Swaziland and Botswana, the two countries that have the highest infection rates are now instituting similar programs. But a number of Green’s colleagues do not completely agree with his conclusions. “Right now condoms are the most effective means we have available for preventing the spread...
...kids in my class at school were no longer there," he says. "And so politics came to me." In the 1970s, Manuel gravitated towards Steve Biko's black-consciousness movement. But in 1979, determined to become "a revolutionary with a big beard and a big gun," he traveled to Botswana to join the African National Congress guerrillas in exile. To his disappointment, the ANC sent him back to work in Cape Town. He quickly became a key figure in the city's opposition and by 1985 he was in jail. Regular detentions followed. During one release, Manuel, who had married...
...What is important is not the numbers but the fundamental goal that people must stay alive,” he said. “In Botswana, thanks to the initiation of government spending and international help, the life expectancy of infant population increased at a rate of five years per every year since...
According to his data, the life expectancy in Botswana grew from 49 years in the 2004 fiscal year to 63 years this year...
...affects the entire eastern portion, said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It is also hitting cities hard, including the capital Harare, where it can be expected to infect more people more rapidly because of greater population density. The epidemic has also spread to neighboring Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique...