Mbeki's Aids pledge
Donwald Pressly
Cape Town - The government would be providing 53 000 people with treatment for HIV/Aids by March 2005, says President Thabo Mbeki.
"We have already started with the implementation of our comprehensive plan on HIV and Aids," he said in his State of the Nation address at parliament on Friday.
He added that 113 health facilities would be fully operation by March next year.
Mbeki, who has faced criticism over his government's slow progress in providing anti-retroviral drugs to those infected with HIV, said more impetus would be given to the Khomanani social mobilisation campaign "as we intensify home-based care".
Simultaneously regulations on the pricing of medicines were now in effect. "We anticipate that by the end of this year the consumer will pay less for the medicines at the retail outlets."
Edited by Jannie Momberg
Donwald Pressly
Cape Town - The government would be providing 53 000 people with treatment for HIV/Aids by March 2005, says President Thabo Mbeki.
"We have already started with the implementation of our comprehensive plan on HIV and Aids," he said in his State of the Nation address at parliament on Friday.
He added that 113 health facilities would be fully operation by March next year.
Mbeki, who has faced criticism over his government's slow progress in providing anti-retroviral drugs to those infected with HIV, said more impetus would be given to the Khomanani social mobilisation campaign "as we intensify home-based care".
Simultaneously regulations on the pricing of medicines were now in effect. "We anticipate that by the end of this year the consumer will pay less for the medicines at the retail outlets."
Edited by Jannie Momberg
posted by Dr Philippe Maslo at 13:15
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