That type of quest is too simplistic for Africa, as Mbeki clumsily keeps saying. The first priority should be widespread, affordable HIV testing. People who don't know their HIV status can't protect themselves or mobilize. Second should be building a network of basic health care to ensure survival of the next generation. Just as important are community services that can protect, nurture and educate the millions of orphaned children.
Drug companies can do more.
So can slow-moving African governments and Western aid organizations. Solutions to Africa's AIDS crisis are as interdependent as communities themselves. They wither whenever the players occupy themselves with pointing fingers and taking sides.