Archive for March 2000
SA’s AIDS Doubts Baffle the Experts
Johannesburg, South Africa
March 17 2000
By KHADIJA MAGARDIE and DAVID LE PAGE
Statements questioning the cause of AIDS have caused dismay among local and international scientists.
LEADING international AIDS scientists and researchers this week unanimously dismissed the South African government’s suggestion that the link between HIV and AIDS be “re-examined”.
Head of the Medical Research Council Professor Malegapuru Makgoba also lashed out at the so-called Aids dissidents, describing them as “failures in their own countries” and warning that South African is becoming “fertile ground for pseudo-science”.
Their statements came as the government’s apparent readiness to overturn the principles behind its own Aids policies began to attract further disbelieving international attention.
A lengthy story in New York’s influential Village Voice this week is subtitled: “South Africa’s president may become the first world leader to believe that HIV is not the cause of AIDS.”
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