With these words, the Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, ended an ignominious decade of Aids denial that has cost South Africa countless lives and has forced those with the virus to live in the shadows." 
Kwa kauli hii, Waziri wa Afya, Barbara Hogan, amehitimisha muongo mzima wa aibu ya kukana uwepo wa UKIMWI jambo ambalo limeigharimu Afrika ya Kusini idadi isiyohesabika ya maisha ya binadamu, wakati huohuo wale waliokuwa wakiishi na VVU wakiishia kuishi kana kwamba kwenye kivuli chao wenyewe.”