MEDICAL researchers seeking an Aids vaccine were lambasted on Monday by South African Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma for ignoring the region where the disease is most prevalent. “About 70% of the cases of Aids in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa, but world research into a vaccine is not into the type of virus found in sub-Saharan Africa,” she said. More than three million of South Africa’s 40 million inhabitants are already HIV-positive. Zuma said that in KwaZulu-Natal one in three pregnant women attending ante-natal clinics are HIV carriers.
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