The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA)’s client who was suing her employer has been awarded a 10- month salary settlement as compensation for unfair dismissal on the grounds of her HIV Positive status. BONELA legal officer, Dikeledi Phoo Dingake, said...“In the absence of...[an HIV/AIDS employment law] employers will continue to dismiss employees on the grounds of their actual or perceived HIV status." BONELA believes that stigma and discrimination are drivers of the HIV/AIDS pandemic as they discourage the public from actively seeking voluntary counseling and testing if it will result in loss of employment.