According to a new report by the Institute of Security Studies and Transparency International, South Africa’s HIV/AIDS fight has been a “potentially lethal cocktail of mismanagement” (newsvote.bbc.co.uk, 11/28).
While South Africa has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world (an estimated 30 percent of the population are currently living with the virus), authors of the report—which is entitled ”A Lethal Cocktail”—claim that very little is being done to curb the spread of the disease or to provide care for those living with it.
The report blames the region’s poor handling of the epidemic primarily on President Thabo Mbeki, who has openly questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, in addition to government corruption and an often abusive health care system.
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