South Africa: Former MP resigned over AIDS denialism

Activist Pregs Govender admitted this week that AIDS denialism within government had been one of two factors that pushed her to resign as an ANC Member of Parliament in 2002. The other factor was government's decision to spend billions of rands on arms. "I disagreed with the questioning of whether HIV causes AIDS," Govender told a full house at the University of KwaZulu-Natal this week, when she delivered the Harold Wolpe lecture.