SA doctors 'guilty of genocide'?

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The government will save R30 by not giving Nevirapine to save a baby's life, but spend R600 a month thereafter on treating the HIV-infected child, a leading paediatrician warned on Monday.

Dr Ashraf Coovadia of the SA Paediatric Association was responding to an Inkatha Freedom Party call for doctors to do more to protest against the Medical Control Council threat to delist nevirapine for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTC).

The MCC has given manufacturer, Boehringer Ingleheim, 90 days to present more safety and efficacy data. The MCC stance has been widely criticised.

IFP health spokesperson, Dr Ruth Rabinowitz said: "It is not enough for the Medical Association South Africa (Masa) to compare South Africa's Aids policy to euthanasia.

"Doctors are in the front-line of implementation of policies that are clearly unethical, dangerous, unscientific and damaging to public health. It is high time they began to implement their commitment to serving patients by boycotting the current policies."

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