Botswana has a small population, about two million, but a very big HIV prevalence rate.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

This high prevalence rate has fueled the tuberculosis epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

A recent progress report on HIV/AIDS says Botswana is one of the nine Southern African countries that continue to bear the global burden of HIV/AIDS, with each country having an adult prevalence of more than 10 percent. The government's national AIDS control program has boosted testing,prevention and treatment efforts.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

(OMITTED) It's still low prevalence, but you know we've just put out the synthesis report, which was an epidemiological study of HIV and its evolution in the region, and the report says that probably, at least for the near future, we'll never have an epidemic of HIV in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07