Good News This Week: August 30, 2025 - Mangroves, Violins, & Corals

Good News This Week: August 30, 2025 - Mangroves, Violins, & Corals

Good News This Week: August 30, 2025 - Mangroves, Violins, & Corals ‍ The Best Positive News We’re Celebrating This Week — Once “at risk of extinction” from HIV, Botswana is now a world leader in eliminating the virus in children In the 2000s, HIV was rampant in Botswana, with one in eight infants reported to be infected at birth, and rates of mother-to-child transmission between 20 and 40%. Mortality among children under five nearly doubled between 1990 and 200 because of the virus. Now, Botswana has one of the world’s most successful HIV-elimination programs, with interventions that slashed the mother-to-child transmission rate to under 1% over the course of just two decades. Fewer than 100 HIV-positive infants are born annually, an event so rare that each case is evaluated to determine how it happened. The remarkable turnaround was thanks to political will, investment in scientific infrastructure, and sustained public health education that brought the latest, most effective tools to …