Botswana prisons: Foreign inmates win case for free HIV treatment
Botswana’s court of appeal has upheld a ruling that foreign prisoners should receive free treatment for HIV/Aids, rights lawyers say. Foreign prisoners were previously expected to pay for their own medication, unlike local inmates. Two HIV-positive prisoners had challenged the government’s refusal to pay for their anti-retrovirals (ARVs). The UN estimates that about 25% of […]