South Africa's 'lunatic fringe' approach to AIDS 'immoral and ineffective'

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa dismissed harsh criticism of its AIDS policy by a top U.N. official "with contempt" on Saturday and said he was no Messiah for Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis.

U.N. special envoy on AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis closed a global conference on Friday with probably the most blistering attack ever on South Africa's "lunatic fringe" approach to AIDS, calling it immoral and ineffective....

Mbeki's government first denied that the HIV virus causes AIDS and then resisted offering HIV drugs to its people, calling them expensive and potentially dangerous.

The government bowed to public outcry in 2003 and launched a public antiretroviral (ARV) drug programme which officials now call one of the biggest in the world.

But Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang still questions ARVs and instead promotes home-grown remedies such as olive oil, beetroot and garlic. She says they boost nutrition and immune response but activists say her prescription leads to thousands of unnecessary deaths every year.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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Let alone the fact our Ex Deputy President Jacob Zuma had unprotected sex with a family friend who was HIV+, he then took a shower to clean the disease off.

This was revealed in a court case involving the women who said it was rape.Just think when your so far down, up is the only way to go.