[Marxism] SA government ends Aids denial

[glparramatta]

Sorry Walter, that is what you wrote. I'm a little bleary eyed and 
misread your intro. I guess what I was trying to say is that the ANC 
government has been forced to back down, if indeed that is what has 
happened (the ANC has failed to keep its promises in regards to AIDS 
treatment many times), by the mass movement, not by advice from Cuban 
doctors or Havana. The credit should go to that mass movement.

Norm

glparramatta wrote:

> 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.
>
>