Court Clears Way for Dispensing AIDS Drug
From Times Wire Reports
South Africa’s highest court ordered the government to stop blocking the universal provision at public hospitals of an anti-AIDS drug to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of the disease.
Activists who successfully forced the government’s hand said they would begin immediately to push for a nationwide supply of life-prolonging antiretrovirals.
South Africa has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world.
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