title: South Africa: Court orders government to provide antiretrovirals to prisoners.
abstract: On 28 August 2006, the High Court of South Africa denied the government's attempt to suspend an earlier Court order to provide antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to eligible HIV-positive prisoners in Westville Correctional Centre (WCC). In reaching its decision, the Court considered, among other factors, the irreparable harm and neglect that would be suffered by the prisoners should the access to ARV treatment be delayed. The judgment is the latest development in an eleven-month struggle by WCC prisoners living with HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the AIDS Law Project (ALP) to compel the government to provide ARVs to WCC prisoners.
authors: Cheryl
authors: C
authors: Robinson
mesh_terms: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000600:supply & distribution / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006076:Government; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011329:Prisoners; D013019:South Africa
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents