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Home > Botswana: Ruling Political Party 'Politicizing HIV/AIDS' NGOs say

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Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
174 [3]
Article-Summary: 

A group of nongovernmental organizations on Monday called on the Botswana Democratic Party to remove a campaign billboard that features a prominent AIDS advocate and links voting for the BDP with receiving antiretroviral drugs at no cost, Agence France-Presse reports. The billboard includes a picture of Helen Ditsebe-Mhone - who in 1992 became the first person in the country to publicly announce her HIV-positive status and founded the Coping Center for People Living with HIV/AIDS - and inclu...read more [4]

A group of nongovernmental organizations on Monday called on the Botswana Democratic Party to remove a campaign billboard that features a prominent AIDS advocate and links voting for the BDP with receiving antiretroviral drugs at no cost, Agence France-Presse reports. The billboard includes a picture of Helen Ditsebe-Mhone - who in 1992 became the first person in the country to publicly announce her HIV-positive status and founded the Coping Center for People Living with HIV/AIDS - and includes the words, "Free HIV/AIDS drugs. Vote BDP."

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Food & Health [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/24606 [6]
Country: 
Botswana [7]

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