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by Robert Walgate

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Is the President of South Africa really so irrational about AIDS?

Email: Robert Walgate - walgate@scienceanalysed.com
News from The Scientist 2000, 1(1):20000710-06

Published

10 July 2000

The UK's Guardian says today (10 July) that "Mbeki makes doctors despair" with his "rejection of the conventional wisdom that AIDS… is caused by HIV." And that report was by no means alone in the world media reaction to the opening speech by Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa, at the 13th International AIDS Conference, currently running in Durban. Press, radio and TV all carried much the same horrified reaction, as did the conference web site itself.

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