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Sunday Times (Johannesburg) - Sunday 28 July, 2002
Bobby Jordan
Addressing the opening session of the association's annual national council meeting , Letlape said the medical profession needed to draft its own policy framework for HIV/Aids treatment.
He said doctors were ethically bound to serve their patients and should intervene where the government was slow to approve policies on antiretroviral drugs.
"The policy of no treatment is not acceptable . . . The provincial strategies currently in place will not work and the rate of HIV will continue to rise."
The association represents about 70% of doctors in both the public and private sectors.
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