**6. Acknowledgement**

The author would like to express his sincere gratitude to the comments made by colleagues during the presentation of the draft manuscript to the STARND Consortium members before it was submitted for consideration of publication as a book chapter. The comments made were invaluable and helped to improve the current manuscript. The author would


also like to express his heartfelt gratitude to Central Statistics Office in the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning for granting him permission to use the BAIS data.

Table 3. Percentage of the population who reported that they would not buy vegetables from a shopkeeper who had HIV & AIDS, actual and standardized percentages, by survey and sex, Botswana AIDS Impact Surveys (BAIS) I, II & III
