{"id":616,"date":"2006-09-06T10:04:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T14:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/09\/06\/the-aids-vaccine\/index.html"},"modified":"2006-09-06T10:04:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T14:04:23","slug":"the-aids-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/09\/06\/the-aids-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aids Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were an African country where 5 million people had Aids, a pretty simple solution to your Aids problem would be to tell people &#8216;garlic and beetroot.&#8217;  Now, this is a pretty darn good remedy, if you lived Ancient Rome and were also a voodoo priest. But if you&#8217;re the Health Minister in South Africa, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/5319680.stm\">it&#8217;s a little bit of a different story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 60 international experts on HIV\/Aids have called for the resignation of the South African health minister because of her stance on Aids.<\/p>\n<p>Manto Tshabalala-Msimang tells those with HIV to eat garlic and beetroot.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent to President Thabo Mbeki, the academics called the government&#8217;s health policy &#8220;disastrous and pseudo-scientific&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people [in South Africa] are dying unnecessarily&#8221; because they cannot get Aids drugs, the letter says.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is one of the countries worst affected by Aids, with some 5m people with HIV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were an African country where 5 million people had Aids, a pretty simple solution to your Aids problem would be to tell people &#8216;garlic and beetroot.&#8217; Now, this is a pretty darn good remedy, if you lived Ancient Rome and were also a voodoo priest. 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