Aidsmap | HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa are substantially underreported

Aidsmap | HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa are substantially underreported:
"The extent of AIDS mortality in South Africa is a very controversial subject. If no longer a total sceptic about HIV/AIDS, President Thabo Mbeki continued to play down its impact in his country even while the government was preparing for the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy. On a trip to New York in September 2003, he claimed: 'Personally, I don't know anybody who has died of Aids."