Botswana’s gains in fight against HIV/AIDS threatened by lack of strategy to manage drug resistance

Published on December 16, 2022

Botswana’s hard won success in the fight against HIV/AIDS is in danger of being reversed by the dearth of a comprehensive strategy to combat drug resistance among infected patients – it has emerged.

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