House Chair, I would like to thank hon Minister Dlamini-Zuma for her contribution. We still welcome her inputs.
I only have three things to say. The first one pertains to hon De Villiers. He said something along the lines of condoms and circumcision not being effective or working in our fight against HIV and Aids. I just want to reassure you there that the presentation of what we are going to be doing takes two hours. This budget speech was only 20 minutes long.
Yesterday I presented it to the CEOs of all the hospitals in the Western Cape. We are going to email copies of that presentation for you to look at. But - just to summarise - we have a series of things we are going to do in prevention: Firstly, we will have massive information education and mass mobilisation. In this case, we have already met with all 19 SADC sectors in terms of the work they are going to be doing. In the SA National Aids Council, Sanac, you have labour, religion, traditional healers, youth formations, children's and women's groups, as well as people living with HIV/Aids. Every citizen is represented there.
Secondly we are going to do a massive sexually transmitted infection detection and management exercise.
Thirdly, we are going to launch the Know Your Status campaign.
Fourthly, there will be widespread provisioning of condoms. Please don't discourage it. Don't discourage it; the whole world is encouraging it. In fact, we are going to increase the provisioning of condoms from 450 million male condoms to 2,5 billion male condoms, and increase 1 million female condoms to 6 million. Don't discourage that either.
Do you see, hon De Villiers, that our approach on the issue of medical male circumcision is not opposition-based; it is evidence-based and scientific? It is very scientific and evidence-based and there is massive research about it. That is why it is so important. Don't discourage it. We welcome the fact that His Majesty the king said that there are going to be 2,5 million circumcisions in KwaZulu-Natal. We are throwing everything at our disposal at this issue.