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Article: Beetroot but no blushes; South Africa.(South Africa and AIDS)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2006
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More controversy over AIDS policy
THE South African government must look forward to international AIDS conferences much as the Sudanese await the publication of human-rights reports and the Nigerians corruption inquiries. They know they are in for trouble--and last weekend's AIDS gathering in Toronto duly provided it.
Stephen Lewis, the UN's envoy for combating the disease in Africa, accused the government of embracing theories worthy of a "lunatic fringe", promoting bogus homemade remedies and being "obtuse, dilatory and negligent" in distributing anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs). As if to bear out his point, the South Africans displayed such goodies as ...