Mbeki blamed for 330,000 deaths
From BBC
A recent Harvard School of Public Health study said 330,000 deaths were caused by his 1999 decision to declare available drugs toxic and dangerous.
Zackie Achmat said Mr Mbeki had ignored the scientific evidence.
Mr Mbeki’s spokesman referred media enquiries to the government, but no spokesman was available to comment.
Mr Achmat, who leads the Treatment Action Campaign, which successfully lobbied for the eventual reversal of government policy, claimed Mr Mbeki had “blood on his hands”.
He called for him to be summoned to a judicial inquiry or the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The study, published on 20 October, said that as a result of Mr Mbeki’s policies, nearly 35,000 babies were also born HIV-positive between 2000 and 2005.
The former president had failed to roll out the drugs which could have prevented mother-to-child transmission, said the researchers.
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