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M Tshabalala-Msimang: Health Dept Budget Vote 2007/08
Budget Vote speech by the Minister of Health, Dr Manto
Tshabalala-Msimang, for 2007/08 financial year, National Assembly
7 June 2007
Madam Speaker
Honourable members
Distinguished guests
Ladies and gentlemen
It gives me a great pleasure to present the national Department of Health
2007/08 budget to this House for consideration and approval. I would like to
alert honourable members that the full version of my address has been printed
and is available to honourable members.
Before I speak to the achievements, priorities and budget of the Department
of Health, permit me to speak about a personal matter for a few minutes. As is
known I have been ill for a few months and have been a beneficiary of a
transplant. During this trying time I was sustained by the love, concern and
support of my family, friends and comrades many of whom are in the House today.
I wish to thank the President and the Deputy President of our country for
support rendered to me during this period. I also wish to take this opportunity
to thank all those who privately and publicly expressed their wish for my
speedy recovery.
My sincere gratitude goes particularly to the health workers at the
Johannesburg General Hospital and Donald Gor
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Thabo Mbeki
President elect South Continent from 1999 to 2008
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Why so many people still die from Aids-related illnesses despite more people being on treatment
Twenty years ago antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV were a rare luxury in South Africa. The rich could buy them for tens of thousands of rands in the private sector. Most had no access to treatment at all. At the time, president Thabo Mbeki and his infamous minister of health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were fiercely opposed to providing antiretroviral treatment in the public sector. Those were terrible days. Many lives were lost.
Today, one of the main challenges in the fight against Aids is the lack of availability of diagnostics and drugs that can help save lives of people suffering from advanced HIV; who are very vulnerable to deadly opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis, meningitis and severe bacterial infections.
When Doctors Without Borders (MSF) started treating people with antiretrovirals in Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town, the clinics were quickly flooded with very ill people. Many were extremely weak; some had to be carried on the back of relatives or in wheelbarrows – haunting experiences.
But there was new hope.
As patients were getting better on treatment, this hope emboldened people living with HIV to