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In South Africa, HIV/AIDS denialism had a significant impact on public health policy from 1999 to 2008, during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki criticized the scientific consensus that HIV is the cause of AIDS beginning shortly after his election to the presidency. In 2000, he organized a Presidential Advisory Panel regarding HIV/AIDS ...
The following section focuses on the causes of Mbeki’s denialism, questioning claims that his opinions resulted solely from an immersion in dissident HIV/AIDS literature. Rather I suggest that Mbeki used HIV/AIDS as a direct response to neoliberalism, a political tool that would allow him to fight for an increased significance on the world stage.
How disappointing, then, that former President Mbeki chose this moment to resurrect discredited propositions on HIV and AIDS. His administration’s ambiguity on the role of HIV causing AIDS resulted in a decline in life expectancy from 62 years in 1994 to 52.5 years by 2005.
The document, partly penned by then President Thabo Mbeki, was titled “Castro Hlongwane, Caravans, Cats, Geese, Foot & Mouth and Statistics: HIV/AIDS and the Struggle for the Humanisation of the ...
AIDS activists and researchers argued for years that the negligent HIV/AIDS policies of former South African President Thabo Mbeki were causing a massive, unconscionable loss of human life. Now, thanks to the doctoral thesis of a student at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), they know the full extent of the damage.
Discussion of AIDS in South Africa needs to move beyond a simplistic “for or against” stance on President Mbeki's denial of a connection between HIV and AIDS. The authors propose ways to widen the debate and hence to increase understanding of the epidemic. At the beginning of 2000 Thabo Mbeki sent a letter to world leaders expressing his ...
Thabo Mbeki’s alleged ‘aloofness’ and his antipathy towards debate are inextricably linked with his AIDS denialism. Reuters. Former South African president Thabo Mbeki’s character was a ...
