Projektdokumentation: rainbowNotioN – Fotobot ... - Belleville AG

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Installation Grahamstown Festival and town The National Art Festival of Grahamstown is the oldest, biggest and most important festival of its kind in South Africa. And it clearly showed itself to be the best organized venue of our SA-tour. Grahamstown itself is a provincial town two hours from busy Port Elisabeth. It is famous throughout the country for its great universities and private schools. Besides the many students, Grahamstown also has a large black population. The festival runs during South African’s winter, 10 days in June/July. Location As in Oudtshoorn, the installation was placed at the main festival road, ironically again in a window of a pharmacy. A perfect opportunity to ask a question about one of the major problems of this country: AIDS Martin Roth, November 2006 15
Question Can AIDS be cured with traditional medicine? Amayez’esintu angayinyanga na iAIDS? Why this question? Similar to western societies, you’ll find a lot of believers in alternatives to the chemical treatments. Thus, the practicing physicians of traditional methods can present many success stories and spread hope amongst the millions of HIV-infected people. Nevertheless, the discussion about HIV-treatment in South Africa had its absurd moments, reaching the highest level when Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of the ANC and candidate for the next presidency of South Africa, was accused of raping a young HIV-positive friend of the family. His answer of how to protect against the HIV virus was simple: taking a warm shower after having sex will be sufficient. Indeed, a rather irresponsible signal to send a society with one of the highest percentages of HIV-infected people in the in the world. Also South African’s president Thabo Mbeki did not help to educate his country by saying that it is not proven that HIV causes AIDS. While international scientific consensus holds that antiretroviral medication is an effective treatment for HIV, Mbeki has claimed that it is harmful and unsafe. Drug companies, he argues, have exaggerated the importance of ARV treatment in order to further their profits. see http://www.avert.org/aidssouthafrica.htm In a situation of controversy and misinformation we wanted to know: Can AIDS be cured with traditional medicine? 4779 said YES, 6092 NO. Martin Roth, November 2006 16
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