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Health authorities on Wednesday reported the first known cases of virtually untreatable tuberculosis in Botswana, following fears that the highly contagious strain has spread beyond neighboring South Africa. The health ministry said there were two cases of so-called extremely drug resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, as well as 100 cases of the slightly more manageable multi-drug resistant TB, or MDR-TB. Although XDR-TB has been reported in other parts of the world, especially former Soviet republics, it is particularly lethal in southern Africa, where AIDS incidence is high, because it combines with AIDS to kill.

After embarking on a programme to provide HIV sufferers with anti-retroviral drugs on a scale never before seen in Africa, only 8.5 percent of patients have died in the last five years, according to the southern African country's national AIDS coordinating agency (NACA). According to UNAIDS, 270,000 of Botswana's two million population are living with HIV. Of those whose condition is so advanced that they need ARVs, 85 percent receive drugs free of charge from the government. That figure compares for example with 21 percent in neighbouring South Africa where 5.5 million people are affected, and eight percent in its troubled eastern neighbour Zimbabwe, UNAIDS said on its website.