LESOTHO: AIDS highlighted during presidential visit

HIV/AIDS is to feature prominently on the agenda during the visit of Botswana's President Festus Mogae to Lesotho.

Mogae is expected to meet with HIV/AIDS support groups and HIV-positive people at the end of the week, after addressing the Lesotho parliament and formally meeting with King Letsie III on Thursday, Agence France Presse reported.

An estimated third of Lesotho's nearly 1 million population are living with HIV/AIDS.

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