Hope For South Africa - At Last (p 501)
This week's editorial urges the South African Government to implement new recommendations to provide antiretroviral treatment to tackle the country's grave HIV/AIDS epidemic. Three recent developments are detailed that offer some hope to the nearly 5 million South Africans living with HIV/AIDS: the authority of a South African drug company to develop and produce generic antiretrovirals locally and cheaply via voluntary licensing agreements from larger, global drug companies; the signing of an agreement between South African government and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to provide a grant of US$41 million over 2 years for treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and tuber