Report on Assessment of the Legal Environment For HIV and AIDS in Lesotho

These challenges include a humanitarian crisis brought on by the El Nino weather phenomenon, an uncertain socio-economic outlook, long-term environmental degradation and climate change, as well as the continuing effects of political instability. Together, these factors make for elevated vulnerability and an unpredictable future for Basotho. The situation strikes at the very roots of the country’s progress and threatens to reverse hard-won development gains with serious consequences for the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Basotho.