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‘Homosexuality is unAfrican’

The homosexual debate is a contentious issue that often leaves tempers flaring. And this was the case at the Gaborone High Court last week when a bench of three judges Abednego Tafa, Jennifer Dube and Micheal Leburu, listened to arguments in the...

Keletso Thobega | 22 March 2019

Doctors unite to tackle industry challenges

The path to becoming a doctor is particularly difficult. Even more difficult is getting funding to specialize, as Dr Wada Goitsemang-Keofetlhile would find out when she got accepted into a Masters in Medicine programme in 2016. “I spent the...

Rachel Raditsebe | 22 March 2019

Key Populations Reach Programme, which started in 2016 ends this year following a Regional Learning Symposium of eight countries held in South Africa this week. The programme was aimed at reducing HIV infections and HIV-related deaths among key...

Yvonne Mooka 22 March 2019

Women living longer than men

Life expectancy has been increasing over the past two decades across the world with several nations in Sub sub-Saharan Africa rebounding from high death rate due to HIV/AIDS. In Botswana women have a longer life expectancy than men, living to an...

Rachel Raditsebe | 22 March 2019

Surviving endometriosis with natural remedies

What is your professional background? I am a medical officer at Princess Marina Hospital and have been working there for almost two years. I’m currently in the Obstetricians & Gynaecologist department working as a General Practitioner. It’s one...

Sun Reporter | 22 March 2019

YOGA AND GOOD HEALTH

We concluded last week’s Yoga Corner with the introduction of ‘meditation and good health’, highlighting the vastness of the subject and that there isn’t a part of our lives that is not touched or affected by meditation. Starting with the...

Pauline Sebina | 22 March 2019

ANCIENT SOURCES OF HEALTH

WATER is not just a liquid but a substance which may keep and pass on information. This water enters the body and all substance in the entire body are influenced, causing high level of hydration, proper hydration carries nutrients into blood cells...

Dr Brown Oteng 22 March 2019

LGBTI+ POPULATION AND MENTAL HEALTH

Our previous discussion was centred on women as a vulnerable group to mental health problems and we will this week focus on the lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI) population; another vulnerable group. According to American...

David Sydney Mangwegape | 22 March 2019

Tlou lauds BSEL for women empowerment

Botswana Stock Exchange Limited (BSEL) has been applauded for championing women empowerment, as the bourse employs more women. Speaking at the BSEL Woman Day commemoration recently, Shiela Tlou Co-Chair of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition and...

Andrew Maramwidze | 22 March 2019

UDC obliterates BMD

Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) leadership is this week expected to conclude deliberations on re-allocation of Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) constituencies. BMD was expelled from the UDC last year. Its constituencies are now to be...

Nicholas Mokwena | 22 March 2019