| The Denialists
Specter, Michael
New Yorker, March 12, 2007, v83, # 3, pp32-38
The article discusses how AIDS denial influences the health policies of many countries. Nowhere perhaps has the damage been as extreme as in South Africa. With five and a half million of the country's forty-eight million people infected with H.I.V., South Africa has one of the world's deadliest AIDS epidemic. South Africa has sub-Saharan Africa's largest economy. It is one of the few on the continent that could genuinely afford to administer an antiretroviral-drug regimen but only about two hundred thousand receive the drugs. Many people in South Africa -- including government officials -- believe that anti-retroviral medications are poison and encourage people with AIDS to use traditional forms of medicine. Only recently is there evidence that AIDS denialism is waning in South Africa. Michael Specter writes about science & public health for the New Yorker.
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