Word: thabo
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...terrible as these numbers are, they're bound to get worse. While some of the talk in Durban focused on modest advances in AIDS treatment--and on South African President Thabo Mbeki's flirtation with discredited ideas about what causes AIDS--the central dilemma of the conference was how to fight this voracious plague under the conditions that made the continent so vulnerable in the first place...
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...
...past the days when medicines junked in the West are exported to the Third World, but South Africa is aggressively defending its right to import junked science. Even as his government confirmed this week that at least one in every 10 South Africans is HIV-positive, President Thabo Mbeki lashed out at critics of his government's flirtation with self-styled "dissident" AIDS scientists who believe the disease isn't caused by the HIV virus. Mbeki even put a nationalist spin on his angry retort to those who criticized him for giving credence to discredited science. Distinguishing AIDS in Africa...