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Mbeki’s AIDS legacy - 330,000 premature deaths, 35,000 HIV-infected babies

Larvatus Prodeo - November 27, 2008 - 2:42pm

As far as I understand it, Thabo Mbeki’s exit from office was not directly attributable to his reprehensible policies on AIDS. But, on their own, they are sufficient grounds to disgrace his legacy. The New York Times reports on an epidemiological study by researchers at Harvard University’s School of Public Health of the human cost of those policies.

From the study’s abstract: Read more »