Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 47 403 088 at 12.45pm on Thursday June 27 2002.
The Treatment Action Campaign wants to act against provinces that, it claims, do not want to roll out the programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV since the high court ruling that provinces that have the capacity must implement the programme. Provinces identified as culprits are Limpopo, the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga. The lobby groups says of the three, the latter is the “worst”.
No to sensationalisation: Says Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi of the report of the impact of HIV/Aids within the public service.
She was responding to a question from the Democratic Alliance that Aids is the biggest killer in the public service and yet the government does not want to make this known. Moleketi says the report was meant to inform government planners on the effect the epidemic would have on the delivery of service and employee health and well-being.
African HIV infection: United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids executive director Dr Peter Piot says that 28-million Africans are living with the virus and that more than 30% of the adult population in some African countries is infected.