Mbeki blamed for 330,000 deaths
- Posted on Saturday 8 November 2008 - 12:10Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne, AfricaNews editor in Accra, GhanaA recent Harvard School of Public Health study in SA said 330,000 deaths were caused by former President Thabo Mbeki's 1999 decision to declare available drugs toxic and dangerous. A prominent South African Aids activist said he should be called to account for his decision to block HIV medication.
Zackie Achmat said Mbeki had ignored the scientific evidence. Mbeki's spokesman referred media enquiries to the government, but no spokesman was available to comment.
Achmat, who leads the Treatment Action Campaign, which successfully lobbied for the eventual reversal of government policy, claimed Mbeki had “blood on his hands,” according to a BBC report.
He called for him to be summoned to a judicial inquiry or the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
'Major obstacle'
The study, published on 20 October, said that as a result of Mbeki's policies, nearly 35,000 babies were also born HIV-positive between 2000 and 2005.
The former president had failed to roll out the drugs which could have prevented mother-to-child transmission, said the researchers. The study, led by Dr Pride Chigwedere, accused the South African government of "acting as a major obstacle in the provision of medication to patients with Aids".
The authors said that under the leadership of Mbeki, the government had restricted use of donated anti-retroviral drugs and blocked funds for more than a year from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
To estimate the benefits they say were lost to South Africans because of the failure to provide appropriate drugs between 2000 and 2005, the researchers looked at a number of factors.
These included:
• the number of patients who died without receiving treatment
• the relative cost of the drugs and the resources available
• comparative treatment programmes in Namibia and Botswana.
Since the former president was replaced in September 2008 a new health minister, Barbara Hogan, has been appointed and she has been praised by Aids campaigners for tackling the HIV issue with determination.
Reactions
- Posted on Monday 10 November 2008 03:09You'll reconsider these claims once you realize that ALL current HIV treatment drugs have, openly, been admitted to contain live cancer viruses which are the main reason for quick HIV deaths. Thabo researched this phenomena, as many prominent African leaders, activists, and individuals, such as the recent Peace prize winning female author from Kenya, many West African nation presidents and others in the U.S and abroad who have reason to believe that Aids is a manmade virus created by the US. military as a biological weapon of mass destruction.
Research these claims:
Boyd E. Graves
Alex Jones
Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Dr. Len Horowitz - Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 18:44Hi, People this is Lety from 3rd period. I really don't know what to say, but it is a very interesting story.....I hope he goes to jail cuz that's a very bad thing.....
♥♥♥♥♥♥I'M SO PRETTY♥♥♥♥♥♥la chava - Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 18:44Hi, People this is Lety from 3rd period. I really don't know what to say, but it is a very interesting story.....I hope he goes to jail cuz that's a very bad thing.....
♥♥♥♥♥♥I'M SO PRETTY♥♥♥♥♥♥la chava - Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 18:44Hi, People this is Lety from 3rd period. I really don't know what to say, but it is a very interesting story.....I hope he goes to jail cuz that's a very bad thing.....
♥♥♥♥♥♥I'M SO PRETTY♥♥♥♥♥♥la chava - Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 18:44Hi, People this is Lety from 3rd period. I really don't know what to say, but it is a very interesting story.....I hope he goes to jail cuz that's a very bad thing.....
♥♥♥♥♥♥I'M SO PRETTY♥♥♥♥♥♥la chava - Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 18:44Hi, People this is Lety from 3rd period. I really don't know what to say, but it is a very interesting story.....I hope he goes to jail cuz that's a very bad thing.....
♥♥♥♥♥♥I'M SO PRETTY♥♥♥♥♥♥la chava - Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 18:44Hi, People this is Lety from 3rd period. I really don't know what to say, but it is a very interesting story.....I hope he goes to jail cuz that's a very bad thing.....
♥♥♥♥♥♥I'M SO PRETTY♥♥♥♥♥♥la chava - Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 19:39hi every body this nilah and i just wanted to say that this is really wrong and yeah i go with Lety, i really hope this guy goesto jail!1la chava
- Posted on Monday 01 March 2010 19:39hi every body this nilah and i just wanted to say that this is really wrong and yeah i go with Lety, i really hope this guy goesto jail!1la chava
- Posted on Tuesday 02 March 2010 19:31Hy guys it's Nilah. I just wanted to tell ya why would a guy want to kill 330,000 people?? H got some weird problems!!la chava
- Posted on Tuesday 02 March 2010 19:31Hy guys it's Nilah. I just wanted to tell ya why would a guy want to kill 330,000 people?? H got some weird problems!!la chava
- Posted on Tuesday 02 March 2010 19:31Hy guys it's Nilah. I just wanted to tell ya why would a guy want to kill 330,000 people?? H got some weird problems!!la chava
- Posted on Thursday 06 May 2010 19:25PLEASE READ THE FACTS ABOUT HIV AND AIDS DRUGS BEFORE JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS.
It is common knowlwdge in the WEST especially that the drugs used to treat aids are HIGHLY toxic and patients who do not take them seem to live longer healthier lives than those that do.
AFRICANS.... PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH.
QUESTION THIS
Why would a highly educated and knowledgable man such as Mbeki do something to hurt his own people and OPENLY GO AGAINST THE PHARMACUTICAL DRUG ESTABLISHMENT and face the backlash of certain European interest companies ?
ANSWER
Because he has done his research and knows that the drugs are dangerous and the whole system is designed to sell drugs to Africans for huge profits.
Also remember that there is more money to be made by keeping people sick than there is in preventing disease.
Follow this link http://worcester.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/1119.php
Also read this book ----"The Great AIDS Hoax" by Terry C. Fry (Author)quote:Frnnk wrote on 10 November 2008 @ 03:09:
You'll reconsider these claims once you realize that ALL current HIV treatment drugs have, openly, been admitted to contain live cancer viruses which are the main reason for quick HIV deaths. Thabo researched this phenomena, as many prominent African leaders, activists, and individuals, such as the recent Peace prize winning female author from Kenya, many West African nation presidents and others in the U.S and abroad who have reason to believe that Aids is a manmade virus created by the US. military as a biological weapon of mass destruction.
Research these claims:
Boyd E. Graves
Alex Jones
Reverend Jeremiah Wright
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