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...important breakthrough. But it couldn't end with simply acknowledging the problem. When he was invited to address last year's international conference on AIDS in Durban, Nkosi not only appealed for AIDS sufferers to be treated with love, warmth and respect, he scolded South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki - who remains skeptical about the accepted wisdom in the medical community that HIV causes AIDS - for failing to provide treatment to the country's AIDS population. Mbeki, who had addressed the conference before the boy, walked out during Nkosi's address, drawing fierce criticism from South Africans increasingly alarmed...
PLETTENBERG BAY, South Africa - New democracies tend to be a little oversensitive. Take South Africa. A conservative journalist here named Max du Preez recently referred to Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, as a "womanizer." I'm not going to reckon with the truth or falsehood of the accusation, but by the ANC's reaction, you'd think Mbeki had been called a murderer, a cheat, a fraud, a deviant and a liar - all epithets that Bill Clinton, and probably every American president, routinely gets called...
...enemy. He was diagnosed HIV-positive, and found himself among the millions of similarly afflicted South Africans looking to their new government to help them stay alive. But their government failed to comprehend the scale of the crisis and was paralyzed by denial - a denial typified by President Thabo Mbeki's extended flirtation with a discredited group of "dissident" scientists who deny a link between AIDS and HIV infection...
...industrialized world. Achmat soon found himself heading up the Treatment Action Group, organizing sit-ins and marches among the government's own constituency to demand treatment through a public health system that was sending AIDS patients home to die. It was pressure from their own base that stung Mbeki and his ministers out of denial and into action, ratcheting up their AIDS education efforts...
...outcome of the South Africa case may be a headache for the pharmaceutical giants, but it also a poses a dilemma for the government that won the suit. The resistance of the drug companies had given the government of President Thabo Mbeki a ready explanation for its failure to make anti-retrovirals available to South Africa's infected population. But even at the substantially lower prices made possible by importing generic versions, a mass treatment campaign would be a mammoth expense to the cash-strapped government. Simply providing the medical infrastructure to supply the drugs to some 5 million people...