TAC Welcomes New Health Minister

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has welcomed the appointment of new health minister, Aaron Motsoaledi.

However, TAC’s Rebecca Hodes points out that, “... Motsoaledi has to work hard to be able to deliver on the national strategic plan which aims to provide 80 percent of people living by 2011 with HIV with treatment.”

Hodes says Motsoaledi must eradicate the antiretroviral (ARV) waiting list because people are dying of opportunistic infections as a result of low immune systems.

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