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Zimbabwe parliament filled with HIV+ people
31 Oct 2018 at 09:14hrs | Views
Former Deputy Finance Minister Terence Mukupe has ignited a new HIV row on Twitter, after appearing to suggest that Parliament is filled with people living with HIV.
The foul-mouthed former Harare East MP was reacting to claims by the preacher Walter Magaya that he had found an HIV cure.
"Why don't we give Magaya 10 MPs whom he can treat publicly?," Mukupe said in a tweet which drew fire from Zimbabweans.
Mukupe was accused of being insensitive to the plight of HIV sufferers – and he has form. In a May radio debate with Tendai Biti, the man who beat him in Harare East, Mukupe reacted to an attack by the MDC top official by asking him if "he took his ARVs today."
Magaya claimed at a news conference on Sunday that he had found the cure for HIV, which has eluded scientists since 1981.
The Zimbabwe government says Magaya did not follow procedure for registering new medicine, and his claim is being investigated with urgency.
The foul-mouthed former Harare East MP was reacting to claims by the preacher Walter Magaya that he had found an HIV cure.
"Why don't we give Magaya 10 MPs whom he can treat publicly?," Mukupe said in a tweet which drew fire from Zimbabweans.
Why don't we give Magaya 10 MP's whom he can treat publicly....
— Terence Mukupe (@tmukupe) October 29, 2018
Mukupe was accused of being insensitive to the plight of HIV sufferers – and he has form. In a May radio debate with Tendai Biti, the man who beat him in Harare East, Mukupe reacted to an attack by the MDC top official by asking him if "he took his ARVs today."
Magaya claimed at a news conference on Sunday that he had found the cure for HIV, which has eluded scientists since 1981.
The Zimbabwe government says Magaya did not follow procedure for registering new medicine, and his claim is being investigated with urgency.
Source - zimlive
