This is a picture of Nelson Mandela talking to a child who is receiving HIV/AIDS treatment at the Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) funded Khayelitsha clinic in the Cape township of Khayelitsha, South Africa. The case for access to ARVs in South Africa has been the most high profile of all African countries. Data from the South African Department of Health from 2001 shows that 4.71 million people are living with HIV, which gives a prevalence rate of 24.8%. This means that South Africa has more HIV+ people that any other country, and is home to half of all the HIV+ people in the nine southern African countries hardest hit by HIV. More about HIV/AIDS in Africa can be found at http://www.avert.org/aidsinafrica.htm and more about South African HIV/AIDS statistics can be found at http://www.avert.org/safricastats.htm.

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Photo credit: � Eric Miller/Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF)