A survey conducted by Statistics Botswana in collaboration with the National Aids Coordinating Agency (NACA) and Ministry of Health has found that there is a high prevalence of HIV among divorced women and married men as compared to their counterparts. 
The fourth Botswana Impact Survey (BIAS) preliminary results state that “HIV prevalence amongst the married was higher among the males with 26.3 percent compared to females at 18.7 percent. For those who were never married, the prevalence was high amongst the females at 20.6 percent compared to 12.8 percent for their male counterparts.”
The survey says on the same for those who were divorced the prevalence was high amongst females with 32.2 percent compared to the males with 10.1 percent.
The survey also observed that for the widowed, prevalence was higher for females compared to males at 48.9 percent and 40.5 percent respectively.
Speaking at opening of the Legal Year in February this year, Chief Justice Maruping Dibotelo said in 2011 and 2012, figures for registered divorce cases were 1 118 and 971 respectively, while in 2009 and 2010 there were 971 and 1 172 cases respectively.
He told the audience that included President Ian Khama that some of the divorce cases were the dissolution of relatively new marriages and that the marriage vows seemed not to carry any value and the sanctity they once represented.
The survey says that females have a relatively higher prevalence rate of 19.2 percent compared to 14.1 percent of males, which is a slight decline from the 2008 BIAS III (third survey) where prevalence rate for males was at 14.2 percent and females at 20.4 percent.
With regard to age, the HIV prevalence was highest among the 35-39 age groups at 43.7 percent, thereafter, gradually declining with age.  In the 2008 BIAS III this peak was seen in almost the same age groups of 30 to 44.
As far as prevention is concerned, the survey showed increase in the percentage of people undergoes an HIV test.  Between 2008 and 2023 an estimated 70.2 percent of the population aged 10 to 64 years reported having been tested for HIV at least once compared to 56.0percent from the BIAS III. In the 12 months preceding the survey, 97 percent of the population aged 15 to 49 had HIV test and informed of their results.
On knowledge and behaviour, the survey showed that early sexual debut was reported at 4.6 percent for men and women aged 15 to 24 who had sexual intercourse before age of 15 years, compared to four percent recorded from the BIAS III.
The percentage for both sexes aged between 15 to 49 years who had multiple sexual partners in the last 12 months was found to be 15.8 percent. Amongst the same population 81.9 percent reported having used a condom during the last sexual intercourse. Condom use amongst 14-24 age group was found to be 99.5 percent every time they had se with non-regular partners in the 12 months preceding the survey.
According to the report, urban areas were found to have prevalence of 17.5 percent compared to the 2008 BAIS III of 17.9 percent. Rural areas have a highly slightly lower prevalence rate of 15.8 percent in the period under review compared to the 17.1 percent realised in the 2008 BIAS III.
Districts with high prevalence rates are Selibe-Phikwe (25.1 percent (, Francistown (23.1 percent) , Central Mahalapye (20.2 percent) and Kgatleng(19 percent)  while Kgalagadi South (9.9 percent), Kweneng West (10.6 percent), Southern (11.2 percent)  and Jwaneng(12.4) have the least prevalence rate.
