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Opinion
Nature 396, 603 (17 December 1998) | doi:10.1038/25174
Setting a bad example on AIDS
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Abstract
South Africa has a unique opportunity to play a key role in creating effective health-care systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It must not squander this opportunity by rejecting the help offered by science.
It is impossible to claim that South Africa has been turning its back on its AIDS problem. The disease is now so endemic, and absorbs so much of the health budget at both federal and provincial levels, that it has rapidly become one of the country's top health priorities.
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