The New Apartheid

in "AIDS in South Africa" Journalist Zia Jaffrey stresses that AIDS in Africa is not simply a health issue but an amalgam of economic, political and social concerns. Zia Jaffrey takes on President Mbeki's controversial position,as well as first-world governments, multi-national pharmaceutical companies and the devastating effect of AIDS on Africa's social cohesion.. The author presents the case for allowing developing nations access to cheap generic drugs, and argues that mainenance of current prices for AIDS-fighting drugs is tantamount to genocide. The book includes personal narratives from men and women in South Africa, which disturbingly reveal how AIDS has recently become the new apartheid.