AIDS Tax?
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A separate business survey on Wednesday found two-thirds of South Africa’s mining houses, along with significant numbers of manufacturing and transport firms, said HIV/AIDS was hitting profits, although most put the impact at less than 2.5 percent.
The national HIV report, funded in part by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, contained a raft of policy suggestions for South Africa’s government — among them the controversial notion of a new AIDS tax to help pay for treatment of the sick.
“AIDS tax” mooted for S.Africa as epidemic bites
