South Africa's AIDS Epidemic

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Because of the numerous unethical human experiments performed following the development of the germ theory, distrust in the medical establishment has become shockingly high ("America's Shocking Secret: Pictures that Show How U.S. Experimented on Its Own Disabled Citizens and Prison Inmates"). This distrust is the root cause of 300,000 South Africans dying in the early 2000s due to a phenomenon known as AIDS denial ("The Subterranean War on Science"). In the March 2002 publication entitled Castro Hlongwane, Caravans, Cats, Geese, Foot & Mouth and Statistics, the authors cite numerous sources to help explain why they are suspicious of the field of biomedicine, especially of the details regarding the sudden 'AIDS epidemic.' Although the specific persons who wrote the 119-page document are unknown, these individuals are believed to be high members of the South African government, such as Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's former president, and other proponents of AIDS denialism ("Denialism"). Mbeki, and the South African government in general, wrote this to western powers, and their own citizens, to elucidate their reasons for denying anti-retroviral drugs to their people and to justify their general attitude of AIDS denialism. Castro Hlongwane, Caravans, Cats, Geese, Foot & Mouth and Statistics reveals how South African lack of trust in the western biomedical system stemmed from their fears that the west was artificially inducing an AIDS epidemic in South Africa in order to recolonize South African bodies, minds, and wallets.
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