Good Diet ‘Crucial’ in AIDS Fight?

The BBC News web site is carrying a story at the moment saying that: "South Africa’s health minister has called for good nutrition to become the frontline treatment for HIV saying it was vital for people living with Aids" (my emphasis added).

Frontline treatment? I would have thought that Anti-RetroViral (AVR) drugs were the frontline treatment. It may well be that Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is being quoted out of context. However, since she is previously on record as promoting garlic and beetroot as a treatment for HIV, I fear that once again she has opened her mouth merely to change feet.

It would be funny, were it not for the fact that she holds the power of life and death over those unfortunate enough to be HIV+ in South Africa. She is a misguided woman who is doing great harm to those she is supposedly serving.