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there is no cure for AIDS, but by treating the symptoms that result from AIDS the patient can live a longer and healthier life. By taking amoxicillin, it will boost the patient’s immune system. Amoxicillin has been said to be more effective on AIDS patients in Africa then those in who receive anti-retrovirus drugs. Usually the patients receive, two out of the needed three pills, ACT and 3TC, which are substandard retrovirus drugs, and they are not as effective on the disease as amoxicillin is. If the government can supply the AIDS patients in Botswana with amoxicillin and Nyastatin, they will feel healthier and will be able to live a longer life with AIDS and function as a normal person. The patients will be able to eat, work, and live a normal life with AIDS. Another solution

to Botswana’s AIDS problem is to spend 10% more of the budget on healthcare. If Botswana were to take 10% away from economic services and spend it on healthcare, the country economy would benefit from it along with the country’s health. With that extra 10% from economic services, which 40% of the budget is now spent on, it will boost the amount of money spent on healthcare from 2.5% to 12.5%. With that money, Botswana can educate its population about AIDS, how to prevent the disease, and how to live a healthy life with AIDS. Only 60% of the staff at the University of Botswana believed AIDS was very common in Botswana or that they were personally at a moderately high risk of getting AIDS. This needs to change and with this plan it will. Some may say that will take away from

Botswana’s economy, but in the next 25 years Botswana’s economy will be 31% smaller because of AIDS. In the long run by treating AIDS and getting AIDS patients to live healthy lives with AIDS they will be able to give back to the economy. There will be more job openings because the government will need people to help produce the pills. The way the people will be paid is that Botswana is able to apply for grants, which is like being given money. They will use this money and the to pay workers, as well as using revenue from selling the pills to other countries. This will improve the amount of people living under the poverty line, which is 38%. They will be able to work and make money. With this solution, the life expectancy will rise from a dismal forty years to up around 50 to

60, and the economy will grow. This solution is like a cycle, which replenishes itself with money, good health, and education about AIDS