Bush takes Aids message to Botswana, a nation sitting on an HIV timebomb
By Maxine Frith in Gaborone, Botswana 10 July 2003
George Bush arrives today in this diamond-rich country, which is among the most politically and economically stable states in Africa. Yet Botswana faces annihilation because it has one of the highest rates of HIV/Aids in the world: 36 per cent of its 1.6 million people are infected.
Mr Bush will be in the country for only six hours but the visit will be dominated by discussion of the pandemic. The American President has pledged $15bn (£9bn) to fight Aids in Africa.