World | AIDS South Africa Will Expand AIDS Fight In policy shift, country will ramp up testing and drugs for babies By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Dec 1, 2009 11:25 AM CST Copied South African President Jacob Zuma at a World AIDS Day address in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Waldo Swiegers) South Africa said today it will expand HIV testing and treatment for pregnant women and babies, an eagerly awaited shift in a country that has more people living with HIV than any other. Today's speech by President Jacob Zuma on World AIDS Day was viewed as a turning point for a nation whose previous administration disputed the link between HIV and AIDS and pushed garlic treatments as a cure. One Harvard study said that resulted in more than 300,000 premature deaths. Zuma compared the fight against AIDS to the decades-long struggle against apartheid. "At another moment in our history, in another context, the liberation movement observed that the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight," he said. "That time has now come in our struggle to overcome AIDS. Let us declare now, as we declared then, that we shall not submit." Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. A lesson in minding your own business ... at 30,000 feet. Trump signs bill as protesters gather. Report an error