MBEKI'S RESOLUTE STAND AGAINST HIV DOGMA

"There is a determined and aggressive attempt to hide the truth about the direct and immediate relationship between poverty and health. Huge resources are devoted to the accomplishment of this objective. There is virtually no discussion in our country about the diseases of poverty that regularly claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of our people....

We will not be intimidated, terrorised, bludgeoned, manipulated, stampeded, or in any other way forced to adopt policies and programmes inimical to the health of our people. That we are poor and black does not mean that we cannot think for ourselves and determine what is good for us. Neither does it mean that we are available to be bought, whatever the price."
Thabo Mbeki

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http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/2002/at14.htm