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Les pays africains intensifient les mesures visant à détecter et à contrôler la propagation du variant Omicron, alors que le nombre de nouveaux cas de COVID-19 augmente de 54 % chaque semaine sur le continent du fait d’une recrudescence de la pandémie en Afrique australe.

Botswana has become the first high-burden country to be certified for achieving an important milestone on the path to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV by the World Health Organization (WHO). High-burden HIV countries are defined as those with more than 2% of pregnant women living with the virus. Botswana has achieved the “silver tier” status, which moves it closer to eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission. WHO awards this certification to countries which have brought the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate to under 5 %; provided antenatal care and antiretroviral treatment to more than 90 % of pregnant women; and achieved an HIV case rate of fewer than 500 per 100,000 live births.