AEGiS-DMG: HIV/Aids Barometer

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HIV/Aids Barometer

Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - April 12, 2002

Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 46 295 250 as of 1.25pm Thursday April 11 Viva Madiba: Nelson Mandela has again criticised the slowness with which the nevirapine anti-HIV programme is being rolled out to pregnant women, and has repeated his call that the public sector should look to providing anti-retroviral drugs. The South African Council of Churches has also called for the government to accelerate access to nevirapine.

Viva Festus: Botswanan President Festus Mogae has announced that by the year end an estimated 19 000 people will be receiving anti-retroviral medicine to combat Aids. An estimated 19% of Botswanans, 38% of adults, are thought to have the virus.

Rolling, rolling, rolling: The Eastern Cape says it needs three weeks to see where it can roll out its nevirapine programme to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child, although nine hospitals in the province have said they are ready to go ahead.

Posthumous recognition: Nkosi Johnson, who died last year at the age of 12 as a result of HIV/Aids, was proclaimed joint winner of the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child.

Source: www.redribbon.co.za and other news organisations

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