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The Congress of South African Trade unions warmly welcomes today's launch of the government's new AIDS treatment policy. COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, will be joining health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi in Durban, as he kicks of a nationwide tour to assess the readiness of the health sector to implement the new policy in line with the announcement by President Jacob Zuma on World AIDS Day last December.
In Durban the minister is to meet with organisations of people living with AIDS and NGOs among others as part of finalising plans for the implementation of the new treatment guidelines and preparing the ground for the massive voluntary counselling and testing campaign due to start next month.

The federation totally agrees with the minister that "the scale of the epidemic requires that we take unprecedented action", reaffirms its full support for this campaign, which has set a target of testing 15 million people for HIV by April 2011 and urges all its two million members and all South Africans to get themselves tested.

COSATU endorses the minister's statement that he wants "this national campaign to be one massive, unified effort against the epidemics of HIV and TB."