Cabinet rules that South Africans must be given antiretrovirals

Meanwhile, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis has announced that a grant it has been waiting to give to organisations in South Africa has finally been signed. The stumbling block, although officially attributed to bureaucratic problems, has been that the programme included the use of antiretrovirals. A sum of $27m (L17m; euro24m) will go to a two year programme in KwaZulu-Natal, the province said to be hardest hit by the epidemic, with a sero-prevalence of 36%.