Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA)

Soraya Mentoor and Tebogo Gareitsanye The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) has implemented a programme which includes the Development of a Preliminary National Intellectual Property (IP) policy to strengthen its advocacy on IP and case studies on access to cervical cancer medicines. The latter focused on women living in three districts of South East - Gaborone, Boteti Sub- District and Tutume Sub - District. The programme was implemented from 2019 to 2020. Furthermore, in order to inform advocacy, BONELA conducted case studies on the experiences of women living with HIV when accessing cervical cancer medicine in the…