Thank you, Chairperson. The vertical HIV transmission rate at the moment stands in the region of 20,8%. The Minister says that during antenatal care, those women who are HIV-positive are counselled and are made aware of the available mechanisms for the prevention of mother-to- child transmission. But now, only the Western Cape offers dual therapy without the approval of Cabinet. All the other eight provinces have to get the approval of Cabinet for dual therapy.
I ask you, Minister, would it not be more humane to offer, in the counselling process, the opt-out approach to those women who are HIV- positive rather than to perpetuate the trauma of delivering babies who may be HIV-positive and then watching them die within the first year of their lives, given that half of HIV-positive children die of Aids within the first year of their lives? [Time expired.]