Why is South Africa struggling to get to grips with the AIDS Crisis?

“Some of the key issues discussed were among other : Why had President Thabo Mbeki cast doubt on whether HIV caused AIDS? What was the government’s stance on the use of antiretrovirals, particularly AZT? Why had foreign scientists representing an unorthodox
view on AIDS been included in the government’s panel of experts? Did the minister herself have any doubt that HIV
caused AIDS?”