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S.Africa’s garlic, lemon AIDS advice draws new fire
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S.Africa’s garlic, lemon AIDS advice draws new fire
South Africa’s drive to promote garlic, lemon and beetroot as AIDS treatments has fanned anger at home as activists accuse the government of misleading public opinion at a global conference on the epidemic.
South Africa’s exhibit at the Toronto AIDS conference – featuring displays of garlic and other natural foods along with anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs – was stormed by supporters of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South Africa’s most vocal AIDS activist group, local news reports said yesterday. “We feel that the display of garlic and lemon is ... an insult to the South African AIDS crisis,” TAC General Secretary Sipho Mthathi told SABC radio from Toronto.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has made nutrition and natural remedies a cornerstone of her AIDS policy, infuriating the TAC and other activist groups who say ARVs are the only way South Africa can hope to treat the country’s estimated five million HIV-positive people.
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