Monday, May 5, 2008

CHAPTER 8

DRUGS OR GUNS

There is an article explain about which is the priorities that the South African government should choose between drugs to decrease the numbers of AIDS cases or the weapons-acquisitions. To be precise, it covers the two controversies that just won’t go away in South Africa which is the arms and AIDS. A national AIDS activist group is trying to force the government into making antiretroviral drugs freely available to all HIV positive pregnant women in that country. The arms purchase also faces the challenge from another front. The South Africa government’s policy on AIDS was also under legal attack, this time from the Treatment Action Campaign. At present the drug is in only in a few pilot projects. The article purpose is to inform people about the important things that the South African government should think off first before making any decisions. Beside that, the writer does not only inform but also provides an extended persuading to South African government to make antiretroviral drugs freely available to all HIV positive pregnant women.

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