HIV/Aids in Africa: Open your minds

Mbekihas gone on record trying to question the link between HIV and Aids in this country, where 1,500 new cases are recorded everyday, according to latest statistics.

In his argument, he says that poverty, rather than HIV was the principal cause of the disease. He argues that while the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) could be a contributory factor in causing Aids, it could not actually cause the syndrome.

"A virus can cause a disease, and Aids is not a disease, it is a syndrome," he recently said, and declared that while he could accept that HIV contributed to the collapse of the immune system, other factors like poverty and poor nutrition were also involved.read more