South Africa'€™s top scientists and researchers have come out in support of health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi after the furore over Home Affairs supplied AIDS death statistics he quoted recently - which may have been incorrect.
In June 1999 Thabo Mbeki became president. And so began one of the most destructive episodes in our recent history '€“ AIDS denialism. Mbeki questioned the very existence of a sexually-transmitted virus that caused AIDS.
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