{"id":476945,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/476945/?format=json","text_counter":185,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":434,"legal_name":"James Nyikal","slug":"james-nyikal"},"content":"The challenge we had at the time, was that the response was purely prevention. That is because there was very little in terms of treatment. Things have changed a lot and now we have fairly effective ways of ameliorating the effects of HIV/AIDS. The people who are on drugs do live a fairly normal life. As late as 2003, we had less than 10,000 people in this country who were on treatment for HIV/AIDS and, basically, no children and yet, they were affected. Now, we are talking of over probably 3,000 figures or a lot more. But, by the end of the year 2003, we had moved to actually over 2,000 people on treatment."}