DRIVE FOR MORE ARV’s

Name: Drive for more ARV’s

Name of publication: SOWETAN

Name of journalist: Anna Majavu

Date: 04 November 2011

Country: South Africa

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A new health advisory committee says the government must increase the number of pregnant women on anti retroviral treatment by almost 400% in the next two years.Only 22% of pregnant women with a CD4 count of under 350 are on anti retroviral treatment- but this number must be increased to 80% by 2014, according to a report compiled by the committee.