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Botswana is a fairly incredible case actually. It's an oddity, and it's far from being par of the course in Africa.

Botswana is probably the African country where the average person is the richest. Rich diamond deposits have been discovered after independence, and the wealth from these deposits benefits pretty much all the Botswanese (except Bushmen).

Nobody really understands why the anti-AIDS programmes are such a failure in Botswana. It's not for lack of money (anti-AIDS ads are everywhere, and the population can understand them). Comparatively to the rest of Africa, it's not for lack of education. It's really a mystery.

OTOH, the Ugandese ABC programme has been one of the best success stories wrt AIDS in Africa. The balance between the three elements really helped, both in order to shape a less promiscuous culture, and in making promiscuous behaviours less risky.
However, promiscuous behaviour hasn't entirely disappeared, far from it (and it ain't going to disappear anytime soon), and the current dogmatism is shattering what has made it a success.
Not only are the promiscuous behaviours going to be more dangerous, but those who had several partners in their lives (which is possible in a non-promiscuous way: polygamous families, widows, divorcees, people who experienced years before when they were young) are at a serious risk and present a risk to their partners.