irinnews.org - JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - A new study estimates that more than 330,000 HIV-positive South Africans lost their lives between 2000 and 2005 as a direct result of government delays in rolling out a treatment programme. The report by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health was published in November in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). The researchers attributed the deaths to government policies that blocked the distribution of...» view full story