Botswana–United States relations
diplomatic relations between the Republic of Botswana and the United States of America
Botswana–United States relations are the bilateral relations between Botswana and the United States.
According to the 2024 U.S. Global Leadership Report, 46% of Botswana people approve of U.S. leadership, with 27% disapproving and 26% uncertain. In the 2012 report, it was one of the most U.S. approving countries at 79%.
Botswana and the US state of Hawaii are antipodes.
United States aid to Botswana
The United States considers Botswana an advocate of and a model for stability in Africa and has been a major partner in Botswana's development since its independence. The U.S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV/AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997. Similarly, the USAID phased out a longstanding bilateral partnership with Botswana in 1996, after successful programs emphasizing education, training, entrepreneurship, environmental management, and reproductive health. Botswana, however, continues to benefit along with its neighbors in the region from USAID's Initiative for Southern Africa, now based in Pretoria, and USAID's Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Hub, headquartered in Gaborone. The United States International Board of Broadcasters (IBB) operates a major Voice of America (VOA) relay station in Botswana serving most of the African continent.
In 1995, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) started the BOTUSA Project in collaboration with the Botswana Ministry of Health in order to generate information to improve tuberculosis control efforts in Botswana and elsewhere in the face of the TB and HIV/AIDS co-epidemics.
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