"Thousands of parents throughout South Africa have lost and are losing their infants to HIV/AIDS. Most of them are desperately poor and marginalised by a society in which the rights of women and children are frequently trampled upon. However, today's court case and recent events, including the commitment by Government to extend mother-to-child HIV transmission prevention irrespective of today's ruling, give hope to many women and children who will use public antenatal clinics in the future."