Official Is Heckled at AIDS Conference
From Times Wire Reports
Activists jeered South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as she opened a national AIDS conference in Durban. Activists say the disease kills 600 South Africans a day, and some held up signs reading “Save Our Youth, Save Our Future, Treat AIDS Now.”
Critics say South Africa has moved too slowly on AIDS and decry its refusal to permit public-sector hospitals to use antiretroviral drugs. President Thabo Mbeki’s has questioned the drugs as expensive, potentially dangerous and difficult to take.
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