Botswana’s HIV Testing Policy For Pregnant Women Could Cause Human Rights Issues, Letter To Editor Says

Although it is good news that Botswana has reduced its mother-to-child HIV transmission rate to less than 4%, the country’s “system of testing a pregnant woman for HIV unless she objects can be problematic from a human rights standpoint,” Pat Daoust, director of Physicians for Human Rights’ Health Action AIDS Campaign, writes in a [click link for full article]

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Filed under: HIV / AIDS on September 12th, 2007