What made Cabinet change its mind on HIV/AIDS and offer hope to the nation? Kerry Cullinan reports.

Health workers will continue to get anti-retroviral drugs for needlestick injuries, despite a decision by the ANC'€™s National Executive Committee (NEC) that this practice should stop. Kerry Cullinan reports.

Providing nevirapine to pregnant women was inevitable and would probably have been rolled out at the end of the year had a Constitutional Court ruling not forced her to announce it sooner, said Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. In an exclusive interview,  she  talks about the surprise decision to provide anti-Aids drugs to rape survivors and calls on South Africans to tackle the epidemic as partners, not enemies.