South Africa has some state-run systems that are working well. One of these is the HIV treatment programme. We quite possibly have the largest public-sector chronic medicine programme for a single disease anywhere in the world. Of the 7.8 million HIV-positive people in South Africa, about 5.8 million are on antiretroviral treatment, according to the Thembisa HIV model. About 5.5 … Continue reading South Africans are living longer, mostly thanks to HIV treatment