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On March 14, Mogae surprised his own officials by telling foreign journalists he planned to begin providing the AIDS drug cocktail to Botswana's 300,000 infected people by the end of the year. Botswana already has the jewel of African health systems. The clinic in Khudumelapye, which serves 1,000 people, is staffed by two nurses, two assistants and two family welfare educators, who teach healthy living. Farmers here produce abundant food, and when they don't, the government steps in. Clean well water is piped into the village.