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Mbeki - AIDS NPR's Brenda Wilson is spending this year on a health reporting fellowship from the Kaiser Family Foundation. She has been investigating South Africa's AIDS policies and reports on the country's handling of its explosive AIDS epidemic. The country's policies are increasingly controversial at home and abroad. For months now, AIDS scientists and activists have been embroiled in disputes with the South African government. The dispute began when the government did not provide the drug AZT to pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to newborns. The controversy escalated when President Mbeki convened an international scientific panel on AIDS and included scientists who disagree that HIV causes AIDS.

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NPR's Brenda Wilson is spending this year on a health reporting fellowship from the Kaiser Family Foundation. She has been investigating South Africa's AIDS policies and reports on the country's handling of its explosive AIDS epidemic. The country's policies are increasingly controversial at home and abroad. For months now, AIDS scientists and activists have been embroiled in disputes with the South African government. The dispute began when the government did not provide the drug AZT to pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to newborns. The controversy escalated when President Mbeki convened an international scientific panel on AIDS and included scientists who disagree that HIV causes AIDS.