Madam Deputy Speaker, researchers warn of an expected sharp rise in the cost of public health services within the next few years as HIV- positive South Africans develop Aids-related diseases. HIV patients may soon account for much more than 70% of hospital expenditure in medical wards, where currently about half of all patients admitted have HIV-related illnesses, and the number of HIV patients in paediatric wards is even higher. Aids patients stay in hospitals on average four times longer than other patients, placing enormous pressure on health facilities and health care workers. Over the years, the ACDP has joined others in calling for antiretroviral treatment to be available through the public health system to relieve the increasingly desperate situation in hospitals, but delays in providing treatment continue to take their toll on the health services and the economy in general. We do not understand the government's strategy on combating Aids, and therefore we cannot support this Vote. [Interjections.]