Poisonous: A United States newspaper quoted Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang this week as saying that the drugs used to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child are poisonous.”I’m forced to poison my people,” Tshabalala-Msimang reportedly told Newsday. The newspaper said she would only make nevirapine available because she was forced to do so by the Constitutional Court. Tshabalala-Msimang said she had been misquoted.