As a public service, Health-e offers online readers copies of the reports and statements made by the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organisation and Boehringer-Ingelheim on the status, safety and efficacy of Nevirapine as it pertains to the treatment of mother to child transmission of HIV.

South Africa is once again at the centre of an AIDS drug controversy. Emotions are running high and the challenge is to determine what the issues are and the likely consequences for the thousands of women and children who may need the drug.