Alexa Williams
12/4/09
4:52PM
This article is about South African babies under the age of one. If has been stated by President Jacob Zuma that all children under one year old will receive treatment if they test positive for HIV. In South Africa, fifty nine thousand babies are born with HIV every year and has the highest number of HIV positive people within their population. The president announced this during a speech on World Aids Day. He also promised more anti-retrovirals. The government that was in change before this administration had always stated that those anti-retrovirals were too expensive and thus did not provide them.
I think that South Africa is finally making some very important changes and steps towards fixing the massive undeniable problem of HIV. Just the fact that the new President is going to be providing more anti-retrovirals is an amazing step towards lowering the immense number of cases in South Africa. It is also a very positive step that the President himself is getting an HIV test in order to encourage other people in his country to do the same. He seems like he is a leader that might actually make real change within a country that so desperately needs help with HIV.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8388178.stm
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