Community theatre performance in Kliptown, South Africa. Women in southern Africa are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis due to discrimination and violence. Photo by Laura McFarlane/Oxfam America
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced this week that it was awarding its Prize for Achievement for African Leadership to Botswana’s former president Festus Mogae, who led the country from 1998-2008. During his tenure, Botswana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to provide free anti-retroviral medication to all its citizens living with HIV, and by 2007 was treating 90 percent of people living with HIV or AIDS, according to UNAIDS.
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