Commentary Commentaire tion of AIDS has only served to deepen the rift and to undermine
the Minister of Health, whose policies and strategies are predicated on orthodox views of the …

For the first time, the South African Cabinet has acknowledged that antiretroviral treatments
for HIV/AIDS—which stop the HIV virus multiplying in the body—may be a good idea for the …

Human immunodeficiency infection and AIDS are a major recent microbial infection in east
Africa with serious health and socioeconomic impacts in the region. At present HIV infection …

Objective: To ascertain the field acceptability and effectiveness of the routine utilization of
zidovudine in reducing mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV in breastfed children …

prevent mother-to-child Page 1 * HIV/AIDS in South Africa South African Journal of Science 96,
June 2000 Antiretroviral treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 J. Mclntyre" …

Objective. Short-course antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been shown to be effective in
reducing mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV-1. This article details the public health …

In 1994 Connor and colleagues demonstrated in a placebo-controlled randomised trial that
Zidovudine (ZDV) given from 14 weeks of pregnancy reduced the risk of transmission of HIV …

It is hard not to call the last decade of antiretroviral (ARV) access anything other than a
public health, human rights and political success.[1, 2] South African life expectancy has …

In response to an editorial article by PJ Matchaba and ZC Chapanduka (South African
Medical Journal (1997) 87, 1343-1345) on paediatric acquired immune deficiency syndrome …

The judge ordered the government to set up a nationwide programme to reduce mother-to-
child transmission of HIV and must give the court a progress report on implementation of the …