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South African president Thabo Mbeki, hosting the 13th International AIDS Conference, is fiddling while his country dies, say a growing number of AIDS scientists and activists. During the five days of the conference alone, 9,000 South Africans will be infected with HIV; 2,600 will see their HIV infection progress to full-blown AIDS; and a further 1,800 South Africans will die of the disease. Yet, in his keynote speech to the conferenceon Sunday, Mbeki again refused, to the consternation of the vast majority of the AIDS-treatment community, to unambiguously stress HIV infection as the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's AIDS Crisis Finds Leaders Squabbling | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...president, who set alarm bells ringing in the scientific community and the White House this spring by publicly questioning the HIV-AIDS link, and inviting two discredited U.S. scientists who argue that HIV is not the cause of the disease to serve on a government advisory panel. But while Mbeki insists he is merely exercising his right to hear all opinions, critics - including most of the medical community in his own country - charge that this is dangerous dabbling that deflects from the primary objective of stopping the spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's AIDS Crisis Finds Leaders Squabbling | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...Mbeki is certainly on solid ground in stressing that economic factors determine who will survive and who will die of AIDS. Drug treatments that have successfully slowed the onset of AIDS in HIV-positive people in the West would, even at discounted prices, cost at least $1,000 per patient every year, on a continent where average annual incomes are well below $400 and 25 million people are believed to be infected. Indeed, pharmaceutical corporations will take even more heat than Mbeki has from the activists and scientists involved in the conference, many of whom urge dispensing with profit motives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's AIDS Crisis Finds Leaders Squabbling | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...needed to simply contain the spread of HIV in the continent without even beginning to treat it, assistance from the West also becomes a matter of life and death - Africa currently spends some $15 billion each year simply on servicing its debts to the industrialized world. Of course, while Mbeki champions this point of view, domestic critics question whether it wouldn't be more persuasive if his government weren't spending some $5 billion on new jet fighters and submarines when it is AIDS, rather than some foreign military, that will kill half of South Africa's current generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's AIDS Crisis Finds Leaders Squabbling | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...That declaration infuriated Mbeki's government, which saw it as a political attack and reportedly put pressure on South African participants to cancel a press conference scheduled for Monday to discuss its contents. And in Sunday's speech, Mbeki dashed expectations that he'd back away from his earlier pronouncements. Referring to the AIDS phenomenon, Mbeki said "it seemed to me that we could not blame everything on a single virus." That left conference-goers disappointed and alarmed, as it was left to maverick populist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to speak the simple truths about South Africa's AIDS crisis during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's AIDS Crisis Finds Leaders Squabbling | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

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