South Africa: Health workers angry over vitamin quackery

Renewed calls for Government to take action against the controversial Dr Rath Health Foundation have come from a large group of health professionals working in the Western Cape's internationally acclaimed antiretroviral programme. In a strongly worded letter to the province's health minister Pierre Uys the 199 health professionals warned that the activities of Dr Rath Health Foundation were "the largest challenges our health services have ever been confronted with". Rath and his foundation, which includes agents from the South African National Civics Organisation, has since the beginning of the year been promoting high doses of multi-vitamins as an alternative to anti-retroviral drugs which they describe as toxic.