S. Africa curbs AIDS minister influence
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South Africa's government scaled back the influence of its minister for AIDS policy, pilloried for questioning the effectiveness of anti-retroviral drug treatments and promoting beetroot, garlic and African potatoes as ways to fight AIDS.
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Goverment policies have been blamed for fuelling discrimination against people with HIV.
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South Africa admits having problems with its Aids message, as activists call for the health minister to resign.
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Health ministers from across Europe meet in Lithuania to discuss ways to prevent an HIV/Aids epidemic.
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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 is on course to meet its target of halving new Aids infections by 2011, the deputy president says.
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The former South African president said he was disclosing the cause of his son's death to focus more attention on the still-taboo topic of AIDS.
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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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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced by...
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AIDS may be killing elected  officials in some Southern African countries faster than they  can be replaced, creating a new threat to democracy and  governance in the region, a new study said.
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KWANCOLOSI, South Africa -- A barefoot traditional healer entered her thatched-roof hut in this Zulu village, trailed by Randall L. Tobias, the Bush administration's global AIDS coordinator. Tobias respectfully slipped off his tasseled, British-made loafers as he crossed the threshold.
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South Africa will unveil a new plan  aimed at fighting its HIV/AIDS crisis on Friday, seeking to  calm bitter debate and revamp policies that have thus far done  little to stop the epidemic.
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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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JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 16 -- South African President Thabo Mbeki's firing of a top health official with strong ties to AIDS activists has undermined a fragile, year-old truce over how to combat the epidemic, an issue crucial to the future of Africa's most prosperous nation.
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More than 60 international experts on HIV/Aids call for the  resignation of South Africa's health minister.
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Southern Africa&#39;s AIDS crisis is undermining the region&#39;s young democracies as politicians die, voter rolls shrink and electoral shifts help to entrench ruling parties in power, a new study said on Thursday.
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S  Africa's health department is criticised for newspaper advertisements defending the minister in a court case.