{"id":88880,"date":"2026-05-08T20:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88880"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:41:38","slug":"botswana-mourns-death-of-festus-mogae-the-former-president-who-prioritized-hiv-aids-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/botswana-mourns-death-of-festus-mogae-the-former-president-who-prioritized-hiv-aids-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana mourns death of Festus Mogae, the former president who prioritized HIV\/AIDS fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22IHJp.img?w=800&amp;h=435&amp;q=60&amp;m=2&amp;f=jpg\" alt=\"Botswana Former Pres Obit:\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Festus Mogae, Botswana\u2019s former president who made a national priority of the fight against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/hiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">HIV<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/aids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">AIDS<\/a> during his tenure from 1998 to 2008, has died at the age of 86 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/botswana-mourns-death-of-festus-mogae-the-former-president-who-prioritized-hiv-aids-fight\/ar-AA22HT8J?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69fe48aee4184a42b5e0979023da2bf4&amp;ei=61\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Festus Mogae, Botswana\u2019s former president who made a national priority of the fight against\u00a0HIV\u00a0and\u00a0AIDS during his tenure from 1998 to 2008, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Festus-Mogae.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88882,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88880\/revisions\/88882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}