Botswana has one of the highest Tuberculosis (TB) notification rates in the world (509 cases per 100 000), with recent increases blamed mainly on the HIV epidemic. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) cases are also on the rise and 60% – 86% of TB patients are co-infected by HIV.1,2 In 1975, in an attempt to halt the rapid spread of TB in Botswana, the Ministry of Health established the Botswana Nat...

A comparison of university lecturers’ perception towards consumption of genetically modifi ed foods in Nigeria and Botswana was conducted in 2007. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 lecturers out of 685 from fi ve faculties of agriculture in south western Nigeria and 47 from 67 in Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA). Data were collected through structured questionnaire on...

Despite the availability of information and communication technologies (ICT’s) infrastructure in central government in Botswana, there is evidence of lack of exploitation of the technology. There are several factors that hinder exploitation of information technology in Botswana. Botswana is classified as an upper medium income country because of the country’s high GDP. However, such wealth is d...

BACKGROUND The conduct of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in low-resource settings may present unique financial, logistic, and process-related challenges. Middle-income countries that have comparable disease burdens to low-income countries, but greater availability of resources, may be conducive settings for RCTs. Indeed, the country of Botswana is experiencing a rapid increase in the condu...

This paper considers the library and information science research that has been conducted in Botswana since 1979 when the library school at the University of Botswana was opened. The period considered is from 1980 to 2006, a period of 27 years. The paper attempts to link the research and publication trends with the historical, social and cultural factors in Botswana. The conclusion is that Bots...

The study proposes a measure of effective productivity among service workers and seeks a parsimonious predictive model of “effective productivity” among nurses in Botswana. Employee productivity has become a concern of organisations in all economic sectors world wide. In Botswana, it has also become a national priority issue and has been listed as one of the goals of the long term vision for Bo...

52 Utilizing Social Insect-Based Communities for Routing in Network-based Sensor Systems; Li-Minn Ang, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia Kah Phooi Seng, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia Adamu Murtala Zungeru, Department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, Botswana Internati...

BACKGROUND The Botswana antiretroviral program began in 2002 and currently treats 42,000 patients, with a goal of treating 85,000 by 2009. The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun to implement a surveillance system for detecting transmitted resistance that exceeds a threshold of 5%. However, the WHO has not determined when this threshold will be reached. Here we model the Botswana governme...

Recognizing the long-standing traditions of democratic consultation at the local level in Botswana and the leading role of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) tools in participation and decision-making processes, this paper focuses on a real-life case study that matches the implementation of an innovative ICT tool that allows citizens to participate in online and offline consultation...

The emergence and spread of transmitted drug resistance (TDR) poses a major threat to the success of the rapidly expanding antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in resource-limited countries. The World Health Organization recommends the use of the HIV Drug Resistance Threshold Survey (HIVDR-TS) as an affordable means to monitor the presence of TDR in these settings. We report our experiences ...