Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2003. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2003. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia - December 23, 2003
Lorna Mlosana, a trainee educator with the Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa's largest HIV/AIDS activist group, was gang-raped in the rest room of a bar in Khayelitsha township, near Cape Town.
When she revealed she had HIV, her furious attackers beat her to death.
"Efforts to ensure the safety of people living with HIV/AIDS and of women and children must be stepped up," the marchers said in a statement handed to police.
Khayelitsha police station Cmdr. Peter Jacobs told the crowd that two suspects had been arrested and police were searching for a third man with possible links to the crime. Several others also were wanted for questioning.
Activists in South Africa--which has the world's highest number of HIV/AIDS cases with about 5 million of its 45 million people infected--say the stigma associated with the killer disease is hampering efforts to fight it.
AIDS activist Gugu Dlamini was killed by a mob in 1998 after disclosing on television that she was infected with HIV.
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