South Africa's AIDS Epidemic

Due to the large number of unethical human experiments after the development of bacterial theory, the degree of distrust of medical institutions was tremendously high ("The shocking secret of the United States: pictures show that the United States is a disabled person and a prison inmate It shows how we experimented "). . This distrust is the fundamental cause of the death of 300,000 South African people in the early 21st century due to AIDS refusal ("underground science war") phenomenon. In publications Castro Hlongwane, Caravans, Cats, Geese, Foot & Mouth and Statistics published in March 2002, the author quoted a lot of information to help explain why they doubt the biomedical field, in particular the details To do.

During the first epidemic, the society in America and South Africa took a hostile attitude towards HIV / AIDS; however, due to its well-developed justice system, the American society is more compassionate than South African society It became something with. South Africa is the only African country legalizing homosexuality, but that is still a big problem. Carey Johnson of Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Committee said the speed and extent of the deaths of homosexuals and transgender people in Africa was influenced by epidemics of New York, San Francisco and other North Americans in the 1980s I remembered that I commented. And European cities are "(Wakabi 2007)", but the US HIV / AIDS outbreak "official hostility towards homosexuality", in particular the proposal of the Supreme Court's No. 8 against California and the abolition of "marriage protection" subsided The decision of the law (Drucker, 2012)

At the peak of the epidemic in South Africa, Acta led the campaign to allow millions of people living with HIV / AIDS in South Africa to receive treatment. He founded the Treatment Behavior Campaign (TAC) and served as the Director of the AIDS Law Program. In a unified situation, Achmat refused to take his own antiretroviral medication until millions of other South African people got them. Caucasians were diagnosed with AIDS at the age of 13, and he treated hemophilia through blood transfusion. White and his family became educators and activists as they were fighting for the right to continue education. When he was diagnosed, the doctor gave six months of white life. However, White survived for five years and died before graduating from high school. Several months after White died, Congress enacted the Ryan White Care Act, which is the largest plan of HIV / AIDS patients funded by the federal government.