With an adult HIV prevalence

of 20.3 per cent. Botswana is ranked among the top four countries in the world most affected by HIV and AIDS behind South Africa, eSwatini and Lesotho. Among the 370,000 estimated people living with HIV in Botswana in 2018, 29, 500 were young people aged 15-24, the majority of them female (64 per cent). Of greater concern, three in every ten new HIV infections in Botswana in 2018 occurred among adolescents and young people aged 15 – 24 years. Young females in this age group were twice as likely to be newly infected than males the same age and adolescent girls 10-19 years were three times more likely to be infected than boys of the same age.