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News Briefs South African Doctors in AIDS T-Shirt ProtestMay 8, 2003 A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information! Some 300 South African doctors in private practice and state
hospitals donned T-shirts Monday to support a call by the
country's largest AIDS lobby group, Treatment Action Campaign,
for antiretroviral treatment for people living with the disease.
The shirts stated on the front, "Doctors support TAC," "HIV+" and
"SAMA supports HIV treatment" on the back. Kgosi Letlape, chair
of the South African Medical Association, a professional
association representing two-thirds of all doctors in the
country, said, "The campaign by members of SAMA is to show
doctors' support for the Treatment Action Campaign and to
highlight the plight of people living with the disease," Letlape
said. "They are hiding behind a task team with the finance
minister looking at the cost. That should take them half an hour,
they are wasting time and playing Russian roulette with life in
this country," Letlape said.
Adapted from:Agence France Presse 05.05.03 A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information! This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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