AIDS policies proved deadly in South Africa

Joao Silva/New York Times

A patient at an AIDS hospice in Johannesburg, South Africa, in a Dec. 2002 file photo. A new study by Harvard researchers found that the South African government caused the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier in the decade through misguided health policies on AIDS, including denying antiretroviral drugs to patients and refusing to widely administer drugs to help prevent pregnant women from infecting their babies.