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Originally Posted by miss_bellabellini
Unfortunately? Jacob Zuma had sex with someone he knew was HIV positive and his idea of prevention was having a shower afterwards. I won't even go into the stupidity of Thabo Mbeki's idiotic beliefs. But his policies contributed to the high rate of HIV/AIDS transmission in South Africa.
Hardly a shining example of leadership in a country that DOES have an extremely high HIV/AIDS rate. BTW they also base statistics on maternal rates of HIV and those are determined through testing and not 'presumptive diagnosis'.
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'Mbeki's government did, however, introduce a law allowing cheaper locally-produced generic medicines, and in April 2001 succeeded in defending a legal action brought by transnational pharmaceutical companies to set aside the law. AIDS activists, particularly the Treatment Action Campaign and its allies, thought that the law was intended to support a cheap antiretroviral drugs programme and applauded Mbeki's government.'
weird, i thought you said this guys beliefs were idiotic? maybe he just pissed off the wrong pharmaceutical companies