Government's HIV/AIDS plan shifts into top gear

The government's much anticipated Operational Plan for Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment, which provides for the rollout of antiretrovirals, was presented to Parliament's portfolio committee on health on Tuesday.

Roll-out or cop-out on AIDS Drugs?

Pity the person with AIDS who is trying to find out where to go for anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment or how long it will take for the drugs to be available. The Mail & Guardian€™s attempts for the past month to obtain concrete information from each province suggest that public access to the life-prolonging drugs will be akin to a lottery and will depend on where you live.

Progress in the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan for Management, Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS

When we started working on the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan for Management, Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS as approved by Cabinet, we made an undertaking to report to South Africans on all the milestones we are taking in implementing the Plan.

ARV programme to go where none have before

South Africa's anti-retroviral programme will be the largest public health intervention of its kind that the world has yet seen.

ARV rollout in Gauteng brings hope

Melita Sekhotho has vowed to be first in line when anti-AIDS drugs are finally dished out on April 1. The long-awaited rollout of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) in Gauteng, which was announced on Tuesday by Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa, was welcomed by all - especially those whose lives hang in the balance.

School enrolments down as HIV/AIDS takes its toll

A major new study undertaken on behalf of the government has found that South Africa is in the midst of an HIV/AIDS crisis even more devastating than feared.

Speech by the Minister of Health at the Million Men March

This is a transcript of the Minister of Health's, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, speech at the Million Men March, held in Durban on 27 March 2004.

Special report on a decade of democracy - HIV/AIDS

In May 1994, a month after being sworn in as the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) drew up a National Health Plan, with technical assistance from the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund.

HIV/AIDS and tourism top the KZN agenda

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sbu Ndebele has announced a comprehensive strategy to fight HIV/AIDS in the province, which includes accrediting more institutions to administer anti-retrovirals and increasing the number of patients on the programme.

ARV programme stumbles?

Tuesday this week was International Children€™s Day. It was also the day on which we heard the news that government had instructed all provinces that had begun implementing an HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Plan to stop enrolling any more children for treatment. Health-e News Service takes a look at the supply of antiretroviral drugs in the public health sector.