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HIV/Aids Barometer

Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - October 26, 2001

Estimated worldwide HIV infections: Thursday October 25 at 13h50: 43 876 270 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. (See pages 4-5 and 25) Speaking for the poor: Namibian Philemon Moongo of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance/ United Democratic Front coalition told the country's National Assembly that he would ask the minister of health and social service to stop charging fees to admit bodies to mortuaries. He said some families had lost up to five relatives in three months because of HIV/Aids.

Uplifting: The Community Chest and Cape Argus in the Cape have launched a community-building campaign to uplift the people of the Western Cape. The campaign will focus on HIV/Aids.

State of emergency: Cape Town Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane is consulting with the Southern African government, labour movements, churches and NGOs about declaring HIV/Aids a state of emergency. Ndungane was commissioned by fellow archbishops representing more than 70-million Anglicans.

Source: www.redribbon.co.za, news organisations


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