The HIV/AIDS programme initiated by Medicins sans Frontieres in Lusikisiki is well on its way to reaching everyone in the sub-district that needs treatment. Lusikisiki, a tiny town in the Eastern Cape, has just celebrated enrolling over 1100 AIDS patients on antiretroviral treatment thus becoming the biggest rural treatment programme in the country. “The majority of people in South Africa can’t spell Lusikisiki. They just know that it is in the bhundu. If we can achieve this here, the whole country can achieve even more. Let us be a light for others by saving our own lives,” Dr TC Thomas, superintendent of the local St Elizabeth Hospital, told the 2000-strong crowd gathered in the town on Friday (28 October).