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Nov 19 2009, Hector

Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms.

For eight years, the South.

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Dr. Grace Emmanuel, left, explains medication procedure to Tanko Habibu, who is living with the AIDS virus, at an AIDS clinic in Bauchi, Nigeria, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Bauchi State, in Nigeria’s heavily Muslim north, has recently begun playing Cupid..