Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1996. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1996. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
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Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - 6 April 1996
ZIANA quoted Nkomo as telling a funeral gathering for his son Ernest Thuthani, who he said died of AIDS Wednesday, that whites were refusing to share a cure with the majority blacks.
"AIDS was brought to Zimbabwe by white people who intended to wipe out the black population and take its land and wealth," Nkomo said in his rural home in Kezi, southwestern Zimbabwe.
"Unfortunately it backfired because they too are dying of it but still they have the knowledge of its origins and how it can be cured but they just do not want to share that knowledge," he added.
Nkomo said many Zimbabweans were dying of the disease but few people were prepared to discuss it openly.
"He is not alone. Thousands of young people are dying of this thing (AIDS) but people hide the truth," he said.
Zimbabwe's health ministry estimates that more than one million of the country's 10.5 million people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and that about 300 people die from the disease every week.
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