S. Africa curbs AIDS minister influence
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The government scaled back the influence of its embattled minister for AIDS policy after a group of international scientists labeled South Africa's program inefficient and immoral and called for her to be fired.
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More than 80 international scientists and academics condemned South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki released Wednesday.
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When Nelson Mandela speaks, South  Africa usually listens. But his message on AIDS still has  trouble getting through.
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South Africa is on course to meet its target of halving new Aids infections by 2011, the deputy president says.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party has intervened in the war of words between President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, trying to calm tempers.
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Despite facing an &quot;alarming AIDS epidemic,&quot; Singapore will not go on a publicity blitz to promote condom use out of respect for residents who hold conservative views on sexual behaviour, a minister said.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 27--South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday named an interim health minister to replace the ailing but controversial Manto Tshabalala-Msiming, whose reluctance to embrace lifesaving AIDS drugs provoked international rebuke and landed her the derisive nickname Dr. No.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki hailed his embattled health minister as a heroine and likened critics to "wild animals" after she came under attack for her policy on Aids.
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The government of Uganda has cautioned the UN joint programme on HIV/Aids against activities, which support gay groups as details of a secret meeting by sexual minorities in Jinja leaked to The Monitor.
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South Africa will not be able to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS unless it increases wages for government health care workers and other public servants, the head of a leading HIV/AIDS advocacy group said on Wednesday.
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The African National Congress, South Africa&#39;s ruling party, has accused US government of promoting the use of the anti-Aids drug &quot;nevirapine&quot; in this country.
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Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the minister of health, had promoted garlic and beetroot as protection against AIDS, symbolizing her nationâs slow response to the H.I.V. epidemic.
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South Africa's deputy health minister on Tuesday denied calling upon President Thabo Mbeki to take a public AIDS test, but repeated that she believed it was important for national leaders to be tested.
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The South African government says it has contacted authorities in Canada over reports that a large number of its nationals with HIV have sought asylum after a recent AIDS conference.
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South Africa's health minister on  Sunday defended her AIDS policies after a blistering attack by  a top U.N. official, but newspapers said she had made the  country a laughing stock and demanded her resignation.
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A new five-year AIDS action plan is designed to halve the number of HIV infections in South Africa and ensure 80 percent of sufferers get access to treatment, a top official told parliament Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, March 1 (Reuters Life!) - African governments are denying access to HIV prevention, counseling, testing and treatment to gay, bisexuals and transgender people, according to a new report.