November 29, 2001

Drugs reduce AIDS deaths by 60% – doctor claims

Antiretroviral drugs have made a significant improvement to the life expectancy of many people living with HIV/AIDS in Western countries. Although there is still no cure for the disease, Professor Robin Weiss of the Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences at University College London, says antiretroviral drugs have reduced the number of AIDS-related deaths by 60 percent.

Academics urge government to treat AIDS as ‘national emergency’

Health professionals at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand have called on government to respond more effectively to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. They expressed concern that the epidemic was "out of control" in South Africa and listed several key measures, including the provision of antiretroviral drugs, that they believed government should implement to address the situation.

Anso Thom

November 29, 2001

The difference political commitment can make

While the run-up to World AIDS day in South Africa has been characterised by, among other things, a court case demanding that government implement a national plan to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, in neighbouring Botswana, construction workers are burning the midnight oil to complete a state of the art laboratory to support the introduction of a national antiretroviral therapy treatment programme.

November 29, 2001

Drugs reduce AIDS deaths by 60% – doctor claims

Academics urge government to treat AIDS as ‘national emergency’

The difference political commitment can make

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