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/ 11 October 2002

Aids drugs for Mpumalanga

The Mpumalanga Department of Health announced last week that it has begun a programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV, days after the Mail & Guardian exposed provincial inaction in complying with a court order to provide anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women.

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/ 12 April 2002

Mpumalanga doctors defy Manana

Sizwe samaYende and Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga’s largest hospital, Philadelphia, broke ranks this week and announced it would provide nevirapine to pregnant women, regardless of the province’s policy on the issue. Eighty doctors, nurses and support staff signed a memorandum to MEC for Health Sibongile Manana on Wednesday warning that further delays in providing nevirapine were […]