Healthy Deviant

Johannesburg – South Africa more than any other country, people infected with AIDS virus, but also set a new crisis government is over, Monday to head the United Nations AIDS program.

“UNAIDS, Michel Sidibe, executive director,” If I’m in South Africa for World AIDS Day, I know where I have told AFP on the eve of the day when the world takes stock of efforts to combat epidemic And remember who’s dead.

, A country of 50 million South Africa, an estimated 5.7 million HIV infected people – more than any other country in the world. South Africa in about 1000 die from AIDS related diseases every day.

Former President Thabo Mbeki questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, and his health minister to develop drugs to keep AIDS patients alive not believe, instead of garlic and beetroot as a treatment for AIDS to promote.

Harvard study found that more than 300,000 premature deaths in South Africa for AIDS patients if the officials offered drug treatment and preventing pregnant women with HIV passing the virus before working here could have been saved to your children.

Mbeki is president of his party as the previous year to resign after nearly a decade, and President Jacob Zuma, took over after the April elections forced. His health minister has said that Zuma and Mbeki’s AIDS policies and wrong in 2011 in which they need AIDS drugs to achieve the 80 percent target has been set.

AIDS a major speech on Tuesday to Zuma, was scheduled to give. Sidibe, said he hoped President social and financial problems related to the fight against AIDS.

People who are privileged, the fortunate resources …. This not die, perhaps, would be to have HIV, “Sidibe said.” But some of the millions of people … Health systems and services which are not used. “

, Sidibe Zuma “is committed to making changes” said. Country’s health department responsible for AIDS drugs are distributed more rapidly and to work with the United Nations the way to use scarce resources better.

Many health funds in a world recession at one time, more money will need AIDS drugs increase the number of people are concerned. Sidibe, donors request: “Please make adjustment with a human face.

But he can with existing resources and management of such measures will improve. He said that in the long term cost of treating AIDS will reduce new infections less.

“We need prevention, prevention, prevention,” he said.

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