Professor Peter Mugyenyi, Executive Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Uganda, has attacked pharmaceutical companies in the west for deliberately causing the death of Africans living with HIV/AIDS, according to The New Vision.
According to Mugyenyi, western countries deliberately delay to provide life-saving anti-retroviral drugs at an affordable price.
His remarks are in his new book titled Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS killed millions, published by Fountain Publishers.
A WHO profile of Professor Mugyenyi describes him as “one of the world’s foremost specialists in the field of HIV/AIDS”.
Mugyenyi said: “I wrote the book to show the world that what happened in Africa could have been prevented.”