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Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - October 19, 2001
Free at last: The Medical Research Council (MRC) this week released its report on HIV/Aids and adult mortality in South Africa, which finds that Aids is the largest killer in South Africa.
Professor Sam Mhlongo, a member of the Presidential Aids Advisory Council, said the report is "unacceptable" because it does not define what Aids is. Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said the report was a "work in progress". MRC president Malegapuru Makgoba said his organisation stood by the report. For the full report, see www.mrc.ac.za/bod
Stop squabbling: The government should urgently channel resources into meeting the HIV/Aids challenge, and not become "side-tracked by statistical sniping", a firm of actuaries and management consultants said. Wayne Myslik, a demographer at NMG-Levy, made the call as the MRC and Statistics SA disputed estimates of Aids' impact on adult mortality.
The latest MRC study indicates that up to seven million Aids-related deaths may occur in South Africa by 2010. The worst-case estimate from Statistics SA is two million. Myslik said his company's model on adult mortality was "very close" to the MRC figures.
Source: www.redribbon.co.za, news organisations
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