Parliament launches HIV/AIDS Committee

We closed off with an interview with Dr Bevan Goqwana - Co-chairperson of Parliament’s Joint Committee on HIV/AIDS to tell us more about the formation of this new committee. The newly formed joint committee on HIV/AIDS was created in an attempt to deal with the scourge of HIV/Aids, since South Africa is among the countries that have the highest HIV infection rates in the world. The committee will specifically focus on the pandemic and how its spread could be prevented as more than 50% of patients have illnesses related to HIV/AIDs in the medical wards at hospitals. It will also examine and evaluate the legal framework and make recommendation on existing and proposed legislation coming from the Department of Health.