[Marxism] SA government ends Aids denial

[glparramatta]

Walter Lippmann wrote:

>(This progressive political development has to be attributed to the role which
>the independent militant activists in the anti-AIDS/HIV struggle have played.
>I would like to think that the presence of a significant number of Cuban
>doctors working in South Africa, and the Cuban model for fighting HIV-AIDS
>may have played some role in this, due to the close political ties between the
>two countries, which have had cooperation agreements in place for the anti-
>HIV-AIDS struggle for some time. 
>  
>

It would have more to do with the existance of a mass movement led by 
the Treatment Action Campaign (http://www.tac.org.za/archive.html), 
which has forced the ANC government to address the crisis.

See http://tinyurl.com/y7koxc for examples

Norm.