How will South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies lately?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8388178.stm Updated at 15:13 GMT, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 South Africa vows to treat all babies with HIV By Pumza Fihlani, BBC News – Johannesburg All South African babies under the age of one will be treated if they test HIV-positive, President Jacob Zuma has announced in a major policy overhaul. In a widely welcomed speech to mark World Aids Day, he promised more anti-retrovirals — drugs which the previous government said were too costly. And he announced he was preparing to take an HIV test himself. Each year 59,000 babies are born with HIV in a country where 5.2 million people live with the virus. South Africa is the nation with the highest number of people living with HIV. . . . —— http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/south-africa-to-treat-all_n_375179.html
South Africa will treat all HIV-positive babies and expand testing, the president announced Tuesday, a dramatic and eagerly awaited shift in a country that has more people living with HIV than any other. President Jacob Zuma’s speech on World AIDS Day was viewed as a definitive turning point for a nation where the previous administration distrusted drugs developed to keep AIDS patients alive and instead promoted garlic treatments. One Harvard study said that resulted in more than 300,000 premature deaths. Zuma compared the fight against AIDS to the decades-long struggle against the apartheid government, which ended in 1994 with the election of Nelson Mandela in the country’s first multiracial elections. “At another moment in our history, in another context, the liberation movement observed that the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight,” Zuma said. “That time has now come in our struggle to overcome AIDS. Let us declare now, as we decl
PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa will treat all HIV-positive babies and expand testing, the president announced Tuesday, a dramatic and eagerly awaited shift in a country that has more people living with HIV than any other. Sources: http://www.google.
