In terms of the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS, early booking of pregnant mothers is essential and this programme forms part of antenatal care. The provincial department has aligned this programme to the five year provincial strategy. Furthermore, the province has twenty hospitals providing specialized care to HIV positive mothers in labour and a further sixty-seven clinics providing PMTCT. At present, the department is able to provide anti-retrovirals to 94% of babies of HIV positive mothers.