The price of denial

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Manto Tshabalala Msimang
Manto Tshabalala Msimang
Manto Tshabalala Msimang

MBEKI IN PARLIAMENT, 20 Sept 2000: You see if you ask the question does HIV cause AIDS’€¦ the question is, does a virus cause a syndrome? How does a virus cause a syndrome? It can’€™t.

He undermined antiretroviral medication… calling it toxic. Yet ARVs are the only drugs scientifically proven to suppress HIV and save lives.

This story counts the cost – in lives – of ten years of denialism and delays in treating desperate people…

There were over three hundred thousand preventable AIDS deaths during the Mbeki era. We ask: Is there ANYTHING that can make up for this shocking fact?

 

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