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South Africa AIDS Groups Go to Court Over Key Drug
AIDS activists in South Africa said on Monday they were pressing ahead with a court (1) _______ to (2) ________ the government to supply a vital drug cutting the risk of(3) _________ women passing the disease (4)_______ to their babies.
South Africa has (5)________ people living HIV and AIDS(6) ________ any other country, and activists of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) want the antiretroviral drug, called nevirapine, to be made(7) _________ to pregnant women nationwide. (8)_________ a recent report, the state-(9) _________ Medical Research Council said the virus would (10)_________ for a third of all deaths this year and would have killed between five and seven million people by 2010.
South Africa has (11)_________ at the use of nevirapine and other antiretroviral drugs (12) ________ AZT in public hospitals, saying the drugs are(13) ________ expensive and toxic. The South African Health Department has(14) ___________ up pilot projects in 200 hospitals and clinics to (15) ___________ the value of nevirapine in(16) ___________ risks of mothers passing the virus on to their(17) ___________ children.
TAC chairman Zackie Achmat said his organization and other groups lobbying on(18) _________ of people living with HIV-AIDS were taking the National Department of Health and health ministers from eight of the country's nine(19) ___________ to court on grounds they were (20) ___________ the sufferers' (21) _________ right to life and to health care.
Achmat told reporters the case would begin in Pretoria on Monday. ``We're very (22) _________ that, if not in this round, then(23) _________ the end we will win the court case,'' he said. He said the groups had settled with the government of the Western Cape Province, which includes Cape Town, where all pregnant women are(24) __________ nevirapine (25)__________ childbirth.
TOO EXPENSIVE President Thabo Mbeki, who has yet to (26) __________ a causal link between HIV and AIDS, has said antiretrovirals are(27) ___________ dangerous as the disease they treat.
But the activists' case has(28) ___________ the backing of the World Health Organization which said it would provide written (29)___________ and make experts available(30) __________ required.Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (31) ___________ in a radio interview on Monday South Africa could not (32)____________ antiretroviral therapy, but said this did not mean the government was not helping those with HIV and AIDS. ``It is not true that if you do not provide antiretrovirals, you have not treated patients who are HIV-positive,'' she said. She stressed the state did(33) _________ infections which flourish as AIDS breaks down the(34) _________ system.
``It is common knowledge (35)_________ the antiretrovirals for this country are extremely costly. The budget I have for medicines generally is two billion rand ($207 million) and therefore, if I was going to spend all that money on antiretrovirals, (36) _________ then do I do about (37) _________ patients,'' she said. The activists argue South Africa needs a common policy (38) __________ the public and private sectors to(39) _________ all doctors treated HIV and AIDS according to best international practice and(40) _________ errors which could fuel the development of resistant(41) _________ of the virus.
1-Suicides in the German city of Nuremberg _________ 40% in the first 9 months of 2001 _________ with a year ago, and at least part of that success can be __________ to a research project designed to detect and treat depression, according to the coordinator of the project.
2-In a separate study, researchers in London showed that British men are just as likely to be __________ with coronary heart disease (CHD) today as they were 20 years ago, despite __________ knowledge about the illness and ways to prevent it.
3-Residents said a small plane __________ over the area on Tuesday night and _________ a ``suspicious'' substance over some six blocks, a police spokesman said.
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