ANALYSIS    AIR DATE: July 6, 2000  AIDS in Botswana   Experts
gather next week for the 13th International AIDS Conference. We
have a report from a nation with one of the highest HIV/AIDS
rates in the world, Botswana from Lindsey Hilsum of Independent
Television News.  AIDS in Botswana The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation provided funding for this project  LINDSEY HILSUM:
This is a country where the old bury the young. Two decades ago,
Pule funeral parlor dealt with three or four deaths a week. Now
it's 20 or more, sons and daughters. AIDS has seeped through
Botswana like a poison. It started in the towns, but now it's
everywhere; in the rural areas, in the country's biggest
village, Molepolole. Here in the graveyard at Molepolole, I can
see headstones of people who born in the 60's and 70's, and new,
unmarked graves. I'm told there were dozens of funerals here
every weekend.  Botswana had such high hopes. The government was
going to spend its diamond revenues on ending poverty and
developing the rural areas