365,000 died because Thabo Mbeki didn’t believe HIV caused AIDS. These people, a new study concluded, would have accounted for 3.8 million years of life.
Apparently, Mbeki didn’t believed that AIDS science grew out of a racist conspiracy to oppress black Africans.

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