Panafrican News Agency - December 4, 2001
Under what it has dubbed 'buddies programme', the Coping Centre for People Living With Aids (COCEPWA) has taken on 30 women for a four-day course. At the end of their training, they will in turn be required to train other women in the same situation.
An official of COCEPWA said the programme is a capacity building initiative around adherence to anti-retroviral drugs.
It aims at increasing the enrolment of HIV-positive pregnant women in national interventions against AIDS so as to prevent transmission of the virus from mother to child.
The initiative was motivated by the fact that 30 percent of pregnant women attending anti-natal clinics in Botswana are HIV-positive.
The buddies training is sponsored by Action AIDS Committee which is based in Massachusetts, USA.
Most of the 300,000 Batswana living with HIV/AIDS are women who are also the care-givers at home, both to their children as well as to the sick.
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