The Aids policies of former president Thabo Mbeki’s government were directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of a third of a million people in South Africa, according to research from Harvard ...

SIX-year old statistics used by President Thabo Mbeki to claim that HIV/Aids is not the leading cause of death in South Africa underestimate the real impact of the disease, the UN agency dealing with ...

The Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) condemnation of President Thabo Mbeki’s stance on HIV/Aids death figures stemmed from a misunderstanding, the government said on Thursday. ”They seem to have ...

SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday said he had discovered on the Internet that anti-retroviral drugs are as dangerous as Aids. ”There are new guidelines that anti-retrovirals are ...

President Thabo Mbeki denied on Sunday that the government was backtracking on a framework agreement it reached with labour and business on a plan to treat people with HIV/Aids. ”Discussions are going ...

Former president Thabo Mbeki should be held accountable for his role in the HIV/Aids pandemic, the Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) said on Wednesday. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi ...

Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge says she has not called on President Thabo Mbeki to set a leadership example and take an Aids test. ”Although I encourage people to test so that they ...

President Thabo Mbeki remains an ”Aids dissident” who has told a biographer that he regrets bowing to pressure from his Cabinet to ”withdraw from the debate” over the disease ravaging South Africa.

Opposition political parties have questioned President Thabo Mbeki’s fleeting reference to HIV/Aids in his State of the Nation address on Friday. ”Government has to urgently do something to prevent ...

JOHANNESBURG -- President Thabo Mbeki is coming under increasing pressure at home and abroad to set aside his preoccupation with unorthodox scientific theories about what causes AIDS and how to treat ...