It necessitates crisis measures. It demands special accommodations in drug pricing and patent applications. Ramphele's criticism should not be taken amiss. It was intended as a plea to the government. It provides us all with a challenge.
Aids threatens our lives.
Our country's handling of this crisis threatens its moral authority in the world. So devastating can this epidemic be that the deaths and illness and economic ravages it brings can threaten our national peace and the Constitution itself. These matters lie close to our hearts as people who live with the virus in our blood and in our bodies. We are at the epicentre of this crisis because, though it affects everyone, it affects us most. We have most to lose if Aids is not handled properly.