The group would link up with PETA against animal research into AIDS cures.

Due to a lack of awareness programmes and educational opportunities, inaccurate beliefs about AIDS cures are common among township residents in South Africa.

The group would link up with People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals against animal research into AIDS cures.

Then last year, Dr. Zuma announced that South African scientists had made a major breakthrough in the search for an AIDS cure.

And there are those who have vested medical interests elsewhere and do not welcome money being diverted from, say, cancer research to an AIDS cure.

None of the scientists seeking an AIDS cure knows how many barriers must be overcome to rid the body of the last H.I.V., if that is ever possible.

Without the development of an AIDS cure, there is no reason to think that tens of millions will not die in the next few decades.

The road is littered with companies that didn't, whether it's AIDS cures, chips, software, A.T.M. companies or frozen yogurt companies.

Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones.