COSATU no letters, white background.jpg COSATU Northern Cape Statement, 5 December 2014 Mortality Statistics The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Northern Cape is deeply shocked to learn that HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death in our province at 8.7%. These shocking statistics emerge against the backdrop of the celebration of the World AIDS Day which was celebrated in John Taolo Gaetsewe region on 01 December 2014. What is more shocking is to note that it is the first year that any province records HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of death since 1997. This revelation calls for the department of Health to take the lead in the campaign against this pandemic and ensure maximum rollout of antiretroviral drugs. We will, together with our affiliates, NEHAWU and DENOSA, engage the Department of Health to intensify the implementation of awareness and prevention campaigns throughout the province. With the maximum energy and passion possessed by the MEC for Health we are certain that an intensified programme will be developed with all stakeholders to turn the situation around. The provincial AIDS Council will have to ensure that it operates maximally and that the regional structures of the council exist and are functional. We also call for people with the relevant skills to be employed, particularly in out clinics as well as the supply of the relevant medicine not only for HIV/AIDS but for all diseases. Out call goes to the management of the Department of Health to ensure maximum utilisation of the available resources for relevant programmes and ensure proper accounting practices so that the allocated funds reach out to the intended recipients, the patients. We call on the department to also resuscitate their programme of delivering food parcels to poor HIV positive people to enable them to take their treatment on full stomachs. While we are aware that this is the programme of the Department of Social Development we are also conscious of the fact that DSD is not focused on HIV positive people and they miss them at times. The DoH has to keep accurate records of HIV positive people in order to monitor their progress. For more information contact: Anele Gxoyiya, COSATU Northern Cape Provincial Secretary, 082 829 1961 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
