A reported shortage of life-saving HIV medicines across Botswana is threatening to undo decades of progress in the country’s celebrated fight against HIV/AIDS and could derail Botswana’s commitment to the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, a global benchmark for ending the epidemic. The crisis has raised fears that Botswana’s once-model HIV program could falter. The UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals for 90 percent of people living with HIV to know their status, 90 percent of those diagnosed to receive treatment, and 90 percent of those on treatment to achieve viral suppression, were meant to signal the approaching end of the epidemic.
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