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http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Aids_Focus/0,,2-7-659_2022842,00.html
Zinkie Sithole
Lilliesdale - British billionaire Richard Branson has helped build a R44m health centre for villagers in Mpumalanga because the government's own intervention programmes are "useless".
The outspoken head of Virgin told Lilliesdale villagers at the opening of the clinic near Bushbuckridge at the weekend that the government's delay in addressing HIV/Aids was unnecessarily killing tens of thousands of people and was equivalent to genocide.
"This government is not doing enough... the little that they are doing could be seen as genocide," he said. "(The government) is killing thousands of its own people."
Branson said HIV/Aids, TB and malaria were crippling communities across South Africa.
The poverty cycle never would be broken unless people got the opportunity of a healthy life and economic freedom, he said.
Putting his money where his mouth is
The government's lack of interest in saving people with Aids was demonstrated, he said, in the way that the national health department declined an offer by one of his friends to buy antiretrovirals worth $100m (almost R1bn) for the country.
Branson said he did not want to be an armchair critic, and was therefore putting his money where his convictions lay.
The Bhubezi Community Health Care Centre/Autonomous Treatment Centre, or Bhubezi CHC/ATC, will provide villagers with free treatment for HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
Branson funded part of the R44m construction costs, and spearheaded fund-raising for the clinic that saw Anglo Coal, the United States government, and the Ndlovu medical centre also contribute.
In a statement on Monday, the Democratic Alliance said it had submitted questions to parliament to confirm whether or not Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had declined the $100m offer of antiretrovirals.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Aids_Focus/0,,2-7-659_2022842,00.html
Zinkie Sithole
Lilliesdale - British billionaire Richard Branson has helped build a R44m health centre for villagers in Mpumalanga because the government's own intervention programmes are "useless".
The outspoken head of Virgin told Lilliesdale villagers at the opening of the clinic near Bushbuckridge at the weekend that the government's delay in addressing HIV/Aids was unnecessarily killing tens of thousands of people and was equivalent to genocide.
"This government is not doing enough... the little that they are doing could be seen as genocide," he said. "(The government) is killing thousands of its own people."
Branson said HIV/Aids, TB and malaria were crippling communities across South Africa.
The poverty cycle never would be broken unless people got the opportunity of a healthy life and economic freedom, he said.
Putting his money where his mouth is
The government's lack of interest in saving people with Aids was demonstrated, he said, in the way that the national health department declined an offer by one of his friends to buy antiretrovirals worth $100m (almost R1bn) for the country.
Branson said he did not want to be an armchair critic, and was therefore putting his money where his convictions lay.
The Bhubezi Community Health Care Centre/Autonomous Treatment Centre, or Bhubezi CHC/ATC, will provide villagers with free treatment for HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
Branson funded part of the R44m construction costs, and spearheaded fund-raising for the clinic that saw Anglo Coal, the United States government, and the Ndlovu medical centre also contribute.
In a statement on Monday, the Democratic Alliance said it had submitted questions to parliament to confirm whether or not Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had declined the $100m offer of antiretrovirals.
