The Treatment Action Campaign has sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki formally requesting that he appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into the presidency and health ministry's involvement in the promotion and testing of Virodene. Read the full letter here as well as a synopsis of the Virodene affair.

The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update focuses on the Caribbean'€™s slow response to the AIDS epidemic, Australia'€™s Hepatitis C epidemic which is fuelled by injecting drug use and London'€™s efforts to get condoms to Olympic athletes come 2012.