Compiled and edited by Martin Flynn
MTV has presented the South African based HIV activist group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) its 'Free Your Mind' award. TAC activists Busisiwe Maqungo (centre) and Pholokgolo Ramothwala (right) are pictured receiving the award from Dawson's Creek actor Joshua Jackson (left).
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Court victory brings treatment nearer in South Africa
The South African government may be forced to make an anti-HIV drug available
to pregnant women following a landmark legal victory.
Aids activists who packed a Pretoria court gallery last month cheered
and hugged each other as Judge Chris Botha ruled that the government has
to make the drug nevirapin available to all women giving birth in public
hospitals. He ordered the government to begin a programme to provide the
drug by the end of March.
Dr Haron Saloojee, one of the paediatricians who filed the lawsuit, called
the verdict "special Christmas present" that could potentially
save the lives of 50,000 babies a
year.
The drug company Boehringer Ingelheim has offered nevirapine free to
