Botswana: National Survival against HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Botswana has long enjoyed an optimistic status in United States diplomacy as a ‘model country’ for Africa, that is, one where market economic systems and liberal democracy have been put into place consistently throughout the whole postcolonial age. Therefore, externally generated HIV/AIDS policies have been quite inclined to be successfully implemented, particularly when compared to other countries, notably South Africa and Ethiopia. As a ‘model’, the Botswanan experience is advanced as a subject of emulation by the rest of the developing world — in sub-Saharan Africa, to begin with.