AIDS MEETING: South African Leader Declines to Join the Chorus on HIV and AIDS

Cohen, J.

Science 289(5477): 222a

2000


ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075
PMID: 17750393
Document Number: 265932
When South African President Thabo Mbeki rose to address the opening ceremony for the XIII International AIDS Conference here last Sunday, the thousands of researchers packed into Kingsmead Stadium hoped he would say three simple words: HIV causes AIDS. He didn't. Mbeki's failure to acknowledge directly that HIV causes AIDS has angered the country's AIDS researchers; many visiting scientists also expressed their dismay.

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