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The South African government has relented, and some say completely reversed itself, with an unexpected April announcement that it would make anti-retroviral drugs available for rape survivors. The government's U-turn on drugs has been widely applauded inside and outside of South Africa. But the Director-General of Health, Dr. Ayanda Ntsaluba, says the government isn't so much changing course as moving to where the evidence takes it.