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Treatment
Although there is no cure for HIV/AIDS, several treatments can be used to prolong the lives of those infected with HIV, reduce the chance of mother-to-child transmission, or prevent HIV infection after exposure to the virus.
The treatment of HIV/AIDS - or lack thereof - has remained a hot media topic in South Africa in particular, ever since the pandemic started to take hold in the early 1990s. The government has been routinely criticised by lobby groups such as the Treatment Action Campaign for not doing enough in this area. Their criticism has been echoed in court judgments such as the landmark 2001 Constitutional Court ruling (upheld on appeal in 2002) that the government provide nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women, and by other organisations, such as the South African Human Rights Commission.
