http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/All the latest Botswana news headlines!240http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1193502.html?glimmer-of-hope-optimism-grows-with-development-dispersal-of-aids-drugs-in-africahttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1193502.html?glimmer-of-hope-optimism-grows-with-development-dispersal-of-aids-drugs-in-africa<p>Natasha's health represents a small but significant victory over an epidemic gripping South Africa and neighboring countries. AIDS drugs are turning what was a certain death sentence for infants and young children into a manageable disease, providing a glimmer of hope on a continent of gloom.</p><p>But a long, hard road lies ahead. In Sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 10 percent of infected children are receiving the medication they need. Even in South Africa, which has a relatively advanced AIDS-fighting network, an estimated 5.5 million people are thought to have the virus, including about 240,000 children, only some 25,000 of whom have had the treatment that saved Natasha.</p><p>Last year, an estimated 950 South Africans died each day from AIDS-related diseases, and a further 1,400 were infected each day, according to the Medical Research Council. UNAIDS head Peter Piot warned a conference in the coastal city of Durban this month that for every person in the country who started taking AIDS drugs, another five contracted the virus.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:11:35 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1193503.html?natashas-story---a-glimmer-of-hope-surrounds-africas-aids-epidemichttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1193503.html?natashas-story---a-glimmer-of-hope-surrounds-africas-aids-epidemic<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the Dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws a typical 3-year-old's temper tantrums.</p><p>Natasha, who picked up the AIDS virus in her mother's womb, also suffers from hearing problems, rashes and stomach upsets, and can't play outdoors too often because she easily catches cold.</p><p>But she is alive. So very alive.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:11:35 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184671.html?natashas-story-is-glimmer-of-hope-on-aids-amid-suffering-and-despairhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184671.html?natashas-story-is-glimmer-of-hope-on-aids-amid-suffering-and-despair<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa &#8212; Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the Dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws a typical 3-year-old's temper tantrums.</p><p> Natasha, who picked up the AIDS virus in her mother's womb, also suffers from hearing problems, rashes and stomach upsets, and can't play outdoors too often because she easily catches cold.</p><p> But she is alive. So very alive.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:34:50 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184672.html?a-small-victory-in-the-war-on-aidshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184672.html?a-small-victory-in-the-war-on-aids<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws typical toddler temper tantrums.</p><p>Natasha, who turns 3 on July 2, got HIV in her mother's womb. She suffers from hearing problems, rashes and a frequent upset stomach, and she can't play outdoors much because she easily catches cold.</p><p>Advertisement</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:34:50 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184673.html?south-africa-child-represents-a-small-significant-victory-over-aidshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184673.html?south-africa-child-represents-a-small-significant-victory-over-aids<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa &#8212; Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the Dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws a typical 3-year-old's temper tantrums.</p><p>Natasha, who picked up the AIDS virus in her mother's womb, also suffers from hearing problems, rashes and stomach upsets, and can't play outdoors too often because she easily catches cold.</p><p>But she is alive.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:34:50 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184674.html?natashas-story-provides-optimism-amid-aids-suffering-and-despairhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184674.html?natashas-story-provides-optimism-amid-aids-suffering-and-despair<p> CAPE TOWN, South Africa &#8212; Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the Dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws a typical 3-year-olds temper tantrums.</p><p> Natasha, who picked up the AIDS virus in her mothers womb, also suffers from hearing problems, rashes and stomach upsets, and cant play outdoors too often because she easily catches cold.</p><p> But she is alive. So very alive.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:34:50 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184675.html?ron-henry-strait-yarns-of-yesteryear-grow-with-swimming-deer-taleshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1184675.html?ron-henry-strait-yarns-of-yesteryear-grow-with-swimming-deer-tales<p>Sort of like the campfire scene from an old Western movie, the first person to break the silence at story time doesn't stand a chance at having the last say. </p><p> The two stories of ocean-swimming deer presented here last week served as the tag end of a column about the difference between hunting and shooting, and how dads might teach the difference to youngsters. </p><p> It was the deer stories, though, that brought several comments, including an even better &quot;deer incident&quot; story from e-mailer Lindy Downs of Jourdanton. </p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:34:50 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1177842.html?rays-of-hope-for-africas-aids-childrenhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1177842.html?rays-of-hope-for-africas-aids-children<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the Dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws a typical 3-year-old's temper tantrums. Natasha, who picked up the AIDS virus in her mother's womb, also suffers from hearing problems, rashes and stomach upsets, and can't play outdoors too often because she easily catches cold. But she is alive. So very alive. Natasha's health represents a small but significant victory ove...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:24:37 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1177843.html?through-a-glass-darklyhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1177843.html?through-a-glass-darkly<p>Ugandan president offers solution to AIDS epidemic</p><p> Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said that condom use in his country isn't the solution to the AIDs epidemic and called for sexual abstinence and fidelity. You might be tempted to think Museveni has a insular, narrow-minded attitude, but you would be wrong.</p><p>Uganda has seen the biggest decline of HIV infection in the world since the early 1990s. Nationally the prevalence dropped from 12 percent to 4 percent and in the capital city, Kampala, the rate dropped from 29 percent a decade ago to 8 percent today.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:24:37 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1177844.html?letters-to-the-editorhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1177844.html?letters-to-the-editor<p> Print Version | E-mail This Story</p><p> </p><p> </p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:24:37 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1172139.html?quinn-chapel-to-hold-womens-day-celebrationhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1172139.html?quinn-chapel-to-hold-womens-day-celebration<p>MARION - Quinn Chapel AME Church, 437 N. Park St., will hold a Women's Day Celebration at 11 a.m. Sunday with special guest speaker Bishop Sarah Davis, Presiding Prelate of the 18th District Episcopal District.</p><p>Bishop Davis is currently presiding over the South African countries of Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique.</p><p>Post a Comment</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:27:37 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1156243.html?expanding-horizonshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1156243.html?expanding-horizons<p>Click photo to enlargeThe Swaziland countryside is one of vast vistas and a great variety of wildlife that enhances the exotic feel of the land. The Mliwane sanctuary is a privately-held wildlife trust filled with lakes, mountains and good tourist facilities.&laquo;123&raquo;Destination Swaziland</p><p> </p><p> MLIWANE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, Swaziland - Our guide handed us a key with a number on it and pointed to a cluster of windowless, beehive-shaped huts of grass and wood.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:26:51 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1148287.html?another-step-forward-for-baylor-aids-initiativehttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1148287.html?another-step-forward-for-baylor-aids-initiative<p>Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatric AIDS Initiative is adding a seventh site Kenya to its rapidly expanding network of treatment and training centers in Africa.</p><p>The Kenya center could become the Pediatric AIDS Initiative's biggest site worldwide, said Dr. Mark Kline, president of the program.</p><p>Kline, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor and chief of retrovirology at Texas Children's Hospital, is relocating some staff members to the site and said the first patients could begin treatment at an interim facility within 90 days.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:10:07 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1148288.html?jill-scott-8217s-marriage-ends-as-acting-career-beginshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1148288.html?jill-scott-8217s-marriage-ends-as-acting-career-begins<p>Soul singer Jill Scott has been cast as the popular fiction character Mma Precious Ramotswe in an upcoming television show based on Alexander McCall Smith's series of South Africa-based novels surrounding the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency."Actor Idris Elba, who will appear in an episode that begins shooting in Botswana next month, broke the news during an interview with London's Daily Mail.Scott recently finished filming her role in Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married."Speaking of "Why Did I G...</p><p> </p><p> </p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:10:07 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1128048.html?mission-work-takes-many-forms-for-couple-serving-in-africahttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1128048.html?mission-work-takes-many-forms-for-couple-serving-in-africa<p>What's it like to be a missionary in southern Africa?Jeff and Michele Royce have been stationed in the nation of Botswana since September 1998.Jeff Royce is chief engineer for Flying Mission, a Christian charity serving the mission communities and people of Botswana, Zambia and the southern Africa region. He also helps with the maintenance school, does maintenance on Flying Mission and commercial airplanes and flies occasionally.Michele Royce, a member of a former Decatur family, has worked with...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:33:23 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1128049.html?ucsf-school-of-nursing-celebrates-a-century-of-excellencehttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1128049.html?ucsf-school-of-nursing-celebrates-a-century-of-excellence<p>The UCSF School of Nursing Centennial Gala drew a crowd of dignitaries, educators and nurse leaders from around the world, raising more than $500,000, with proceeds supporting nursing scholarships at the nations premier nursing school.</p><p>Proclamations and letters commemorating the schools centennial anniversary were sent from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. For his part, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom officially declared June 9 as the Centennial Nursing School Evening in the City and County of San Francisco.</p><p>The centennial year offers a unique opportunity to reflect on UCSFs tradition of excellence in nursing, which extends from the first nursing education program in 1907 to the present day, said UCSF School of Nursing Dean Kathleen Dracup, RN, FNP, DNSc, in her opening speech. That legacy of compassion, innovation and commitment is exemplified by the people in this room tonight.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:33:23 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1104113.html?in-africa-a-desperate-exodushttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1104113.html?in-africa-a-desperate-exodus<p>MUSINA, South Africa&#8212;The greasy brown river sliding past this African border town might seem eerily familiar to Americans.</p><p>First, there are the concrete international bridges that span its waters, linking a relatively affluent community on one side &#8212; tidy, well-paved, replete with American franchises such as Kentucky Fried Chicken&#8212;with a dustier, much poorer town on the other. </p><p>Then there are the illegal immigrants. They hunker by the hundreds in the riverside brush, waiting for nightfall to crawl under a porous border fence. Grim-faced law-enforcement agents hunt them down in trucks equipped with flashing police lights. So do posses of angry civilians, most of them white, many of them armed, and all of them outraged by what they see as a dangerous lapse in border controls. </p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:42:34 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1096269.html?letter-to-the-editor-proposed-curriculum-could-create-false-sense-of-securityhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1096269.html?letter-to-the-editor-proposed-curriculum-could-create-false-sense-of-security<p>Very soon, the St. Lucie School Board will be deciding on whether to add a new curriculum, "Get Real About AIDS," or to stay with the current abstinence policy. I recommend that we "get real" about teaching abstinence education. </p><p>The "Get Real" curriculum pushes condoms and birth control. Problem: Condoms give teens a false sense of security and are not 100 percent effective. </p><p>Advertisement </p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:06:24 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1096270.html?almanac-new-elmo-attraction-top-10-safaris-books-quotes-currencyhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1096270.html?almanac-new-elmo-attraction-top-10-safaris-books-quotes-currency<p>Click photo to enlargeJackson Hole will celebrate its cowboy roots this Memorial Day.&laquo;1&raquo;YOUNG FANS of Sesame Street's Elmo will enjoy ''Elmo and the Bookaneers,'' a pirate adventure show with music, special effects and live-action performances at SeaWorld Orlando through Labor Day weekend. SeaWorld Orlando has also added the Ocean Commotion tug boat, the Flying Fiddler and Sea Carousel to Shamu's Happy Harbor. For information, visit www.seaworldorlando.com.</p><p> </p><p> Travel safaris</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:06:24 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1085575.html?obituaries-duluth-bobby-landers-used-mechanical-skills-wellhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1085575.html?obituaries-duluth-bobby-landers-used-mechanical-skills-well<p>Bobby Landers could press a circus stilt walker's pants perfectly or replace a spark plug in a cement mixer before it missed a turn.</p><p>He used his talents to help other people, even if it did inconvenience them a bit.</p><p>"Bobby liked tinkering with motors," said his lifelong friend, Tommy Clyatt of Atlanta. "We'd be out fishing in the Gulf and he would take the boat motor apart &mdash;- of course, we couldn't move until he put it back together &mdash;- to see if he could make it run one mile per hour faster."</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:07:58 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1081441.html?the-old-revolutionaryhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1081441.html?the-old-revolutionary<p>In 2003, Mac Maharaj, who had served under Nelson Mandela in South Africas first fully democratic government, was accused in the press of taking kickbacks during his time as minister of transport. Maharaj had left politics four years earlier, when Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as president, and was working in the private sector. </p><p>The accusation, it turned out, was the result of a high-level leak from the public prosecutors office. Though no charges were ever brought, the rumors persisted and Maharaj was unable to salvage his reputation. His employer, First Rand, carried out its own investigation and cleared him, but he left the company and a little later he left South Africa. It was a sad end to a legendary career. </p><p>Mac or Satyandranath Ragunanan Maharaj had spent nearly 40 years as an anti-apartheid activist, much of it in exile and some of it underground or in detention in South Africa, as well as a further five in government. Shades of Difference, by Padraig OMalley, the John Joseph Moakley professor for international peace and reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is a collaborative biography, bringing together the authors analysis and Maharajs own reflections, transcribed from ho...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:38:37 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1081442.html?ok-we-get-it-no-place-is-ever-as-good-as-it-used-to-behttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1081442.html?ok-we-get-it-no-place-is-ever-as-good-as-it-used-to-be<p>On my first morning in Kathmandu I gazed into the eyes of an 8-year-old </p><p>living goddess, watched an elephant lumber past my hotel and met an old hippie </p><p>who complained that the place had lost all its magic. </p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:38:37 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1043061.html?a-pinnacle-of-disgracehttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1043061.html?a-pinnacle-of-disgrace<p>Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana was charged this week with a sumptuous buffet of corruption: racketeering, solicitation, obstruction of justice, money laundering, wire fraud, conspiracy and violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.</p><p>Need to see the dessert menu, or are you full?</p><p>Moreover, if you mapped his alleged crimes' geography, you'd run out of push-pins: the schemes cross from the United States into Nigeria, Botswana, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome e Principe.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:39:30 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1043062.html?csu-gardeners-toil-to-give-back-to-soilhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1043062.html?csu-gardeners-toil-to-give-back-to-soil<p>A sky filled with dark storm-threatening clouds didn't stop the sunshine in the garden at 630 Lake St.</p><p>It didn't mask the smell of compost that would enrich gullies of soil for planting and it didn't quell the spirit of camaraderie among those who touched rake, hoe and hands to the Earth last week.</p><p> </p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:39:30 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1033670.html?ebay-bans-cross-border-ivory-saleshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/botswana/1033670.html?ebay-bans-cross-border-ivory-sales<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - E-Bay is banning cross-border trade of ivory products after a study found nine out of 10 of the items sold on the Internet are probably illegal.</p><p>The online auction company also is alerting traders on its site that they may need to prove they are legally allowed to sell their ivory products.</p><p>The International Fund for Animal Welfare says e-Bay's announcement should send a signal to the 171-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to tighten the trade rule to further protect elephants from poaching.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:41:51 +0000