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Nozipho Bhengu

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that standard pharmaceutical drugs have dangerous side effects and it would be more beneficial to her condition to try a controversial lemon and garlic diet. The health minister was quoted in saying "I do not know of any side effects of eating proper food". Bhengu's mother,
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legislator spoke of her daughter's beliefs in a speech in Parliament. After the speech Nozipho Bhengu's efforts to treat her illness became common knowledge in South Africa.
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Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was invited to her funeral on 24 May. She sent a representative who was subsequently booed by some of the funeral's attendees.
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praised her openness about her illness while at the same time calling her death "unnecessary".
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Bhengu died on 19 May 2006. At the time of her death she was working on a book,
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Diagnosed as HIV positive in 1998, Nozipho Bhengu underwent treatment using
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until 2001. At that point she was persuaded by health minister
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