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Botswana complies with providing foreign inmates ARVS

Star Africa 24 September 2015 Botswana’s Ministry of Health has issued a savingram to all relevant departments ordering the dispensary of Anti-Retroviral Therapy-ARV treatment to all foreign inmates, APA learnt…

Staff Writer28 September 2015

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Justice at the Barrel of a Gun: A Court Diary from Lesotho

On Wednesday 16 September 2015, SALC attended a hearing in the Lesotho High Court in the matter of Mareka and 22 others v the Commander of the Lesotho Defence Force and…

Staff Writer18 September 2015

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A new apartheid: South Africa’s struggle with immigration

Huffington Post JOHANNESBURG — On April 15 of this year, Themba Maphosa awoke to news that five immigrants had been killed by South African gangs the previous night in Durban.…

Staff Writer3 September 2015

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Botswana Prisons: Foreign inmates win case for free HIV treatment

BBC News 26 August 2015 Botswana’s court of appeal has upheld a ruling that foreign prisoners should receive free treatment for HIV/Aids, rights lawyers say. Foreign prisoners were previously expected…

Staff Writer27 August 2015

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Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case

The Nation The High Court in Blantyre yesterday ruled in favour of 11 sex workers who were subjected to a mandatory HIV test in Malawi’s southern district of Mwanza in…

Staff Writer21 May 2015

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Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

By Anneke Meerkotter, Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and Ian Southey-Swartz, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) In 2009, a group of women, presumed to be sex workers, was arrested as…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

20 May 2015 Malawi High Court judge Justice nyaKaunda Kamanga on Wednesday ruled that the police and the medical personnel violated the rights of 11 Mwanza women by subjecting them…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Court set up intimidatory-judiciary

Malawi Nation 22 March 2015 The court set up and the way proceedings are conducted is intimidatory to people, including witnesses, Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda has said. The Chief Justice…

Staff Writer24 March 2015

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Botswana government to appeal ARV ruling

The Citizen 20 January 2015 Foreign prisoners in Botswana with HIV/Aids will have to wait longer before they receive free antiretroviral medication from government. The country’s government has appealed a…

Staff Writer21 January 2015

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Zimbabweans jailed in Botswana fight government over ARVs refusal

New Zimbabwe TWO HIV positive Zimbabweans jailed in Botswana have lodged a legal challenge against the Gaborone government which introduced a policy to deny foreign inmates life-saving Anti-Retroviral Drugs. The…

Staff Writer30 June 2014

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Botswana complies with providing foreign inmates ARVS

Justice at the Barrel of a Gun: A Court Diary from Lesotho

A new apartheid: South Africa’s struggle with immigration

Botswana Prisons: Foreign inmates win case for free HIV treatment

Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case

Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

Court set up intimidatory-judiciary

Botswana government to appeal ARV ruling

Zimbabweans jailed in Botswana fight government over ARVs refusal

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