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Thursday, March 7, 2002 - 02:00
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Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
56 [3]
Article-Summary: 

South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, in a "dramatic turnaround," has broken rank with the central government, withdrawing from its appeal of a December High Court ruling that requires the government to provide the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to all HIV-positive pregnant women to prevent vertical HIV transmission. The province is now publicly siding with the Treatment Action Campaign, the AIDS advocacy group that brought the lawsuit, Health-e News reports.

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Food & Health [4]
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Country: 
South Africa [6]

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