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Beat It! 2000 Episode 3 - Special Report

In the Special Report we looked at the successes of the PMTCT programme in Khayelitsha and how the provision of this prevention programme encouraged mothers-to-be to test for HIV.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 3 - Special Report

After the Constitutional Court's ruling ordering government to roll-out a prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission programme the Special Report looked at how nurses were making the government's PMTCT programme work in rural KwaZulu Natal.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2004 Episode 8 - ART in Gugulethu

In this episode of Siyayinqoba Beat It! the support group discussed antiretroviral therapy with studio guests Dr Linda Gail Bekker and Sister Lulu Mtwisha. The guests explained the importance drug adherence.

Nelson Mandela visits Zackie Achmat at home

Nelson Mandela visited Zackie Achmat with the intention to ask him to reconsider commencing antiretroviral therapy. Zackie respectfully refused Mandela's request prompting Mandela to say in a press conference after their meeting that Zackie "is a role model and his action is based on fundamental principles, which we all admire." "People far beyond our borders are aware of the principled stand that he has taken. It would have been feeble for me to come to him to say: "I want you now to change; to take drugs," because his position is that as long as drugs are not available to everybody especially the poor, he will not take them."