The UN General Assembly Special Session on Aids said an HIV/Aids plan should be a national priority. Such a plan would reduce Aids- related deaths, says the UN, and the Ministry has failed in that. Such a plan would ensure that those who are HIV-positive would be cared for, but it doesn't happen in this country. Such a plan would reduce the stigma of HIV, but there the Ministry has failed too.
The Health Ministry received a qualified report yet again. There was no audit report from the Northern Cape and, overall, the Auditor-General found that the internal audit systems are a mess and getting worse and that asset management was an unmitigated disaster. The Doro Framework for the Ministry of Health hospital revitalisation plans was ignored. Were the implementation plans ever approved or ever monitored? No one knows. And where were the business plans with respect to the HIV/Aids grants? The DA will vote against this budget. [Interjections.]