A small group of people with AIDS in Khayelitsha, Cape Town are enjoying a new lease on life through access to an antiretroviral treatment programme offered by Medecins Sans Frontieres in conjunction with the Western Cape public health system. In this audio feature, a counsellor on the programme and one of the patients talk about the difference such therapy is making to people's lives, as well as the need to counter much of the confusion sown by government's ambivalent stance on HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy.