Botswana Criticised Over ARV Provision

Ditshwanelo, the Botswana Centre for Human Rights has described the Botswana government’s insistence that it will not provide foreign inmates with life-saving antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs because of the cost implications is hypocritical and regrettable.

The organisation’s spokesperson, Thuto Galeitsewe, points out that government cannot claim to support the Vision 2016 ideal of a 'just, compassionate and caring nation' while it remains insensitive to foreign inmates.

He warns that for as long as government fails to adopt a people-centred and rights-based approach to HIV, winning the fight against the disease will but remain an illusion.

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