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• New hope on AIDS in corner of ravaged Africa
In Botswana, which has one of the highest AIDS rates in the world but has enough resources and commitment to provide treatment, 95 percent of HIV positive pregnant women were given antiretroviral drugs to protect their children in 2007. "The ...
• Head to a 'one-third club' country and save
In many cases the difference isn’t enough to get excited about, but other members either in or flirting with the one-third club include enticing destinations such as South Africa, Chile, and Botswana. Destinations where the dollar is up at least 20 ...
• Ivory auctions raise $15 million in Africa
The money from the sales in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe will be used for conservation programs and to help local communities who often complain that their crops are trampled by roaming herds. Under terms agreed with CITES, South ...
• Where the presidents go to get away
Though Bill Clinton jetted to distant locales like Uganda, the West Bank and Botswana, he followed Ulysses S. Grant’s vacationing footsteps on Martha’s Vineyard, the 90-square-mile island off the Massachusetts coast. Clinton relished the cool ...
• Authorized ivory sale nets $1 million
The sale took place under a special exemption to the international ban on trade in ivory. Last year the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ruled that Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe could make a one-time sale of 108 ...