South Africa: State Fury Over Aids Drug for Raped Baby
17.01.2002
A top government official has barred doctors from giving anti-retrovirals - even to raped infants. As South Africa was reeling at the news of an alleged gang-rape and sodomising of a nine-month-old baby in Upington last November, the Northern Cape MEC for health was blasting a Kimberley hospital for giving the infant anti-retroviral medication.