The Ministry of Health and Wellness revealed in a media briefing with local journalists that there has been an abnormally high increase of diarrhoea cases amongst under-fives across the country from week 36 and that currently 17 out of the 27 districts are experiencing the outbreak.
Botswana’s leaders made a call for urgent action on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) in the African region today (17 September) at a landmark forum held in Gaborone. The call comes as the world prepares for a high-level meeting on NCDs at the UN General Assembly in New York, which will take place at the end of September 2018.
Paris - UNAIDS figures reveal that despite accounting for only 11 percent of the Earth’s population, Sub Saharan Africa is the epi centre of HIV/AIDS with 28.5 million of the 40 million people with HIV/AIDS coming from sub-Saharan African.
