[Let me get this straight: Mbeki is saying that if you eat right, then you won’t be susceptible to AIDS. But that totally ignores the medical fact that AIDS is sexually transmitted. Sure, healthy people might have a lower chance of getting it… but that applies to any disease. However, I’m sure a lot of healthy people have caught STDs. Being healthy never prevented people from catching an STD… and the same must be true of AIDS.

Of course… once you are HIV(43)+ you are going to DIE! Mbeki’s “logic” won’t save the 8-9 million Black South Africans who are HIV(43)+. Jan]

Singapore – President Thabo Mbeki declared himself the victor in a controversy over Aids in which he advocated healthy eating as the primary means of combating the HIV/Aids virus.

Responding to a question after addressing business leaders in Singapore on Thursday, Mbeki said experts at a World Health Organisation conference in South Africa last week agreed with him that nutrition was a very important aspect of the matter.

He said that it was “not merely the availability of taking a pill and that was the end of the story” but that effective Aids contravention required a healthy body, an effective health care system and efficient dispensing mechanisms.

“Quite why it became controversial I don’t know, to me it was pretty simple,” Mbeki said.

“That is what caused the controversy but I think now that people have understood.”

The answer was well received by many of the audience who later said it had explained Mbeki’s thinking on the matter, which attracted international attention in 2000.

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Source: News24.Com
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