any publicity at all. I?m really concerned about the lack of democratic tendencies in the science establishments in South Africa.? ANC Daily News Briefing, 22 March 2000 ?Nutritional AIDS dominates the scene in South Africa today as indeed it did during Apartheid. In the middle [19]50?s and 60?s, 50 percent of black children were dead before the age of five. The causes of death were recorded as: Pneumonia, High Fever, Dehydration and intractable Diarrhea due to protein deficiency. Today, these clinical features are called AIDS. Today in South Africa, TB is the leading cause of death and morbidity amongst Africans, but this is called AIDS.? December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa, Brussels ? Dr. Sam Mhlongo , MD, Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at the Medical University of South Africa, Johannesburg. ?I was in Malawi and met with a group of women living with HIV. As I always do when I meet people with HIV/AIDS and other community groups, I asked them what their highest priority was. Their answer was clear and unanimous: food. Not care, not drugs for treatment, not relief from stigma, but food.? ?The first line of defence? in ?World Food Program: Why food and nutrition matter in the fight against HIV/AIDS?. United Nations. ? Peter Piot , UNAIDS Executive Director ?The causal role of HIV in AIDS is certainly not proven.? ?Debating AZT,? 2000 ?In 1988 the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) convened