TAC Slams Mbeki for AIDS Deaths

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) chairperson, Zackie Achmat, says former president Thabo Mbeki should be called to account for his decision to block HIV medication.

Achmat, whose organisation successfully lobbied for the eventual reversal of government policy, says Mbeki has blood on his hands.

His comments comes at a time when a recent Harvard School of Public Health study reveals that a total of 330 000 deaths were caused by Mbeki’s 1999 decision to declare available drugs toxic and dangerous. The researchers argue that the former president had failed to roll out the drugs which could have prevented mother-to-child transmission.

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