Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 47 202 100 at 1.46pm on Thursday June 13 2002.
Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease. In fact, it was Dr Confidence Moloko, the deputy chairperson of the ANC’s health committee, who made the call in his personal capacity.
Minister Kader Asmal to the rescue: Of a four-year old girl, Tholakele, who has been rejected three times by nursery schools in Gauteng because of her HIV status. In his letter to the Montessori Buccleuch Nursery School, the education minister said the action was blatant discrimination. He referred the matter to the Department of Social Development, under whose jurisdiction nursery schools fall.
We’ll quit: Say specialist doctors at Rob Ferreira hospital in Mpumalanga over the firing of superintendent Dr Thys von Mollendorff. Von Mollendorff was sacked after giving permission to a charity organisation, which provides anti-retrovirals to rape survivors, to operate from the hospital. If the doctors quit, this will affect the capacity of the hospital, as it will be able to perform only minor surgery.