S.Africa uproar over call for president AIDS test
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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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South Africa's president called critics of his embattled health minister "wild animals" in a remarkable display of support for a woman decried by AIDS activists for advocating beets and garlic as remedies for the disease.
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A South African doctor faces censure for citing Aids on a death certificate against family wishes.
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SA's blood service faces questions after President Mbeki's blood is destroyed because he is black.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas Â arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency Â may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an AIDS drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to new concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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South Africans tired of flowers and chocolates might want to give their loved-ones a more practical gift this Valentine's Day -- an AIDS test.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 December (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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South Africa's leading AIDS  treatment lobby is taking the government to court, accusing the  authorities of falling behind their own targets to give drugs  to people with HIV, the group's lawyer said on Wednesday.
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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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As an HIV conference opens, a study shows Aids deaths may be undermining southern Africa's democracy.
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South Africa's  controversial health minister denies being sidelined from the fight against HIV/Aids.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 6 -- 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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South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki feels he has "failed on the issue of Aids", a biographer of the leader says.
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South Africa's leading churches  urged President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday to call a referendum on  gay marriages, saying a recent court ruling in favor of the  unions ignored overwhelming public opposition.
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The row between South African President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu worsens.
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South Africa, burdened with one of the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.