South Africa: Motlanthe's Address Puts Back in International HIV/Aids Fold

Cape Town — Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe took a massive stride last night (19 May) towards re-establishing the South African government's credibility in the eyes of the world's AIDS scientists at the opening of the 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2009).

Motlanthe's speech was stripped of any of the denialist science that the South African government had become notorious for since the previous large-scale AIDS science meeting in Durban nine years ago, where then President Thabo Mbeki and his health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang cast doubts over the relevance of established mainstream HIV/AIDS science.

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