Had the orphaned Nkosi lived in a black community he might never have been medicated, or may have been treated with the traditional herbal medicine that in many Western eyes is the work of untutored savages. In any event, Nkosi was adopted by White culture. That was the begining of the end for Nkosi. Our white culture has a different religion. White-coated doctors are our priesthood.
Bodily immortality is the promise.
The bottle it comes in carries a skull and crossbones. The Physician's Desk Reference has warned doctors that AZT can cause illness indistinguishable from Aids. Remember that the mechanism of Aids is unknown and only circumstantially linked to the HI virus. Recall too that the HI virus has only ever been recovered from test tube cultures -never from the uncultured blood of an 'Aids' sufferer. No one can prove HI virus has caused Nkozi's symptoms.