South Africa: An End to the Madness?

editorial

Finally there is a small light flickering at the end of the dark tunnel. The political will and urgency, so severely lacking for nine long years while Thabo Mbeki and his health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were in charge, is on the face of it slowly starting to emerge.

The health department is telling us that the national health minister and his provincial counterparts will next week discuss providing antiretrovirals (ARVs) to patients at an earlier stage of their illness, ensure all HIV-positive infants get the drugs at diagnosis and dispense ARVs to all patients infected with both HIV and TB.

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