Despite Cabinet’s April decision to offer free anti-retroviral drugs to survivors of sexual assault, the programme is being undermined by time lags and survivor’s failure to complete the course of drugs. The programme is being rolled out in Gauteng, the Western Cape, KwaZulu Natal and the Free State, but the AIDS Law Project’s Liesl Gerntholtz says the drugs are not readily available in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Northern Cape.