SA's top five recent successes in HIV

South Africa's HIV/AIDS programme has come a long way from the dark days of denialism and deadly treatment delays. Francois Venter, chairman of the country's bi-annual HIV conference, SA AIDS 2011, gave IRIN/PlusNews five reasons to be happy about the country's progress:

9 Jun 2011

SA's top five recent successes in HIV

The five reasons Venter quoted to be happy about south Africa's progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS were:

1. Testing
2. Antiretroviral prices
3. Treatment
4. Tuberculosis
5. The re-engineering of the primary healthcare system. Read on.

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