The World Health Organisation has high expectations of what South Africa'€™s care and treatment plan for HIV/AIDS can mean for encouraging other African countries to introduce similar programmes.

The Treatment Action Campaign was given a key platform at the XV International AIDS Conference to address delegates on the confusion regarding the South African health department'€™s position on the use of nevirapine.

The Medicines Control Council has said that it did not foresee any disruption to the mother to child prevention HIV programme in South Africa in the light of the announcement that the antiretroviral drug nevirapine was not recommended as a single treatment