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ISHMAEL with Alexander Sudheim
Here we go again: The health minister and seven MECs are to petition the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against a compulsion order issued by the Pretoria High Court…
Proposed: An integrated HIV/Aids research entity by the University of the Witwatersrand, which will bring together all the research and policy work being undertaken at the university…
Taken by surprise: Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang by KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali’s announcement that the anti-retroviral nevirapine would be administered as an emergency measure in the province…
In court again: The Treatment Action Campaign won its legal challenge to force the Department of Health to make nevirapine available to all HIV-positive pregnant women attending public antenatal facilities. The government will appeal to the Constitutional Court to reverse the judgement…
Mounting toll: The United Nations joint programme on HIV/Aids produced its 2001 update on the epidemic. It estimates that five million people became infected with HIV this year and that worldwide 40-million people are living with the virus…
Defensive: Responding in Parliament to a multi-party challenge to the government’s HIV/Aids policy, President Thabo Mbeki expressed reservations about the use of anti-retroviral drugs to treat it.
A testing time: AngloGold says its research data estimates that 29% of its workforce is HIV-positive…
Farewell princess: Hundreds of Capetonians last Saturday bade farewell to five-year-old Sibongile Mazeka, who died of an Aids-related illness.