This week saw the reemergence of an old and frustrating truth: Mbeki ‘still AIDS dissident’. According to Mark Gevisser, the author of a new biography about Mbeki, the President still maintains that there is doubt over the link between HIV and AIDS, and sees the scientific conventions concerning AIDS couched in racist and colonial paradigms. […]

This blog focuses on a series of articles that appeared in the Sowetan last week: “HIV Man Grows Boobs” Condition a side-effect of ARV’s, Sowetan, October 31 st 2007 p1, "Man beats his breasts over ARV effects", Sowetan, October 31 st, 2007, p 5 and “HIV drugs can swell glands”, Sowetan, October 31 st, […]