South African President Jacob Zuma said today unequivocally that his country had to step its fight against HIV / AIDS. "We must do more and we must do better together," Zuma said in a speech at a meeting of the National Council of the Cape provinces. "Let us resolve now that this should be the day we begin to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS."
Zuma's statements may seem mat in other countries, but they marked a sharp departure from his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, who brought much criticism in South Africa in challenging the evidence that HIV actually caused AIDS. South Africa has 5.7 million HIV-positive people, more than any other country in the world, was notoriously slow to start using anti-HIV drugs both as treatment and as a way to slow expansion HIV, the pregnant women to their babies.
Zuma words were celebrated by researchers of HIV / AIDS, clinicians and advocates from around the world. "State supported AIDS denialism in South Africa is dead, dead, kaput, finished, gone forever banished !!!" wrote South African defender Nathan Geffen first plane in a widely distributed email. "We won! Yahoo !!! I am retiring."
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