The Mafikeng Local Aids Council is constituted by all sectors of our society, including business, government departments, NGOs, community-based organisations, local government, youth, people living with AIDS as well as other stakeholders. HIV infects or affects all of us, irrespective of race, class, status, political affiliation or educational level. Each sector within the Local Council has its own specific contribution to make. We must never commit the mistake of closing our minds to possible solutions or assume that certain sections of our society have nothing to contribute.
Nothing can be more suicidal.
A high-powered National Aids Council, again chaired by the Deputy President, which brings together government and civil society. This is in addition to funds that central, provincial and local government will spend on this campaign. The government is funding work that is being done by the Medical Research Council to develop an AIDS vaccine. It is my problem. It is your problem.