Step down and salvage your HIV/Aids treatment policy legacy‚ Zuma advised
14 April 2016 - 16:02
Besieged President Jacob Zuma has been advised to heed the chorus calling him to step down to save the notable only twinkle on his legacy: the radical shift in HIV/Aids treatment roll-out policy that saved millions of lives and hiked life expectancy. When Zuma came to power in 2009‚ he ushered a new era in the roll-out of treatment to HIV-positive people‚ extending treatment to South Africans with the CD4 cell count of 350‚ as opposed to Thabo Mbeki's administration qualifier CD4 count of 200.
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