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More feature stories on Botswana
- High-Level Dialogue on Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda concludes in Botswana
- A High-Level Dialogue on health brought together representatives from governments, non-governmental organizations, academic and research institutions and the private sector to debate how to advance health priorities in the post-2015 development agenda. Co-convened by the Governments of Botswana, Sweden, UNICEF and WHO, the health thematic consultation took place in Gaborone, Botswana from 5-6 March 2013.
- United Nations agencies meet with President and government officials of Botswana ahead of High-Level Dialogue on Health
- Ahead of the High-Level Dialogue on Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, held in Gaborone Botswana from 5-6 March 2013, four heads of United Nations agencies met with the President of Botswana, Ian Khama to discuss the meeting’s implications to global health.
- Country spotlight Botswana: ‘the AIDS response has been catalytic in strengthening our health system’
- Botswana’s coordinator of the National AIDS Coordinating Agency, Richard Matlhare, shares his thoughts on Botswana’s progress in MDG 6.
- Rethinking linkages between the MDGs: Botswana leads the way
- There is now global recognition that one Millennium Development Goal cannot be achieved without the others. The health sector, in particular, has realized that responses to Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6—to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, and combat HIV malaria and other diseases—must be tackled together to improve people’s life. At a side event of the UN Millennium Development Goals Review Summit taking place from 20 to 22 September in New York, Botswana shared its experiences in integrating health interventions and programmes in order to maximize resources and improve health outcomes.
- Leadership and AIDS: Festus Mogae
- On 20 October 2008 Festus Mogae the former President of Botswana was named the winner of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. How has Mogae’s leadership made a difference in Botswana’s AIDS response?
- Progress and challenges for Botswana
- In a joint mission, UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman, UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot and Dr Tadatakai Yamada, President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Programme visited Botswana to gain a shared perspective of the progress and challenges facing the country in its AIDS response.