IF IT weren't for the HIV test, there would be no talk in newspapers of an AIDS epidemic.
Look through the articles published in the SA newspapers over the past few years and you will see that all the hoopla about an AIDS epidemic is based on what fraction of a particular population has antibodies to HIV. That's it. All of it.
There are no articles documenting that AIDS is devastating and depopulating SA, only that this must happen at some ill- defined time in the future.
Outlaw the damn HIV tests and the African AIDS epidemic will disappear from SA newspapers because there won't be anything to write about.
David Rasnick, PhDMember of Mbeki's AIDS Advisory Panel