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Article: Healthy progress: Botswana takes on AIDS.(AFRICA)(Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
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- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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Ian Khama, Botswana's newly inaugurated president, is simultaneously inheriting one of Africa's most successful economies and one of the continent's most problematic health crises. Botswana boasts a consistent 9 percent growth rate in income per capita, the world's highest, but it nonetheless struggles with an exorbitant rate of HIV infection: 24 percent of the adult population is HIV positive. Khama, who ascended to power in April 2008, has accepted the challenge of attenuating the world's highest HIV infection rate while maintaining the economic growth of the small nation. Yet just as HIV/AIDS became a crisis in Botswana despite its robust economy, so too will the ...