Johannesburg – Recent calls for former president Thabo Mbeki and his health minister Manto Tshabalala- Msimang to be charged with genocide are unhelpful, an HIV/Aids association said yesterday.

“We need to spend all the limited resources and time we have in fighting HIV and Aids rather than focusing on fighting people and things that happened in the past,” said National Association of People living with HIV/Aids secretary-general Nkululeko Nxesi.

The association was responding to calls by the Young Communist League for Mbeki to be brought to book for his handling of the issue. – Sapa