South Africa defends AIDS policies
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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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Five-million South Africans, or 11% of the population, are infected with HIV, says a report published today by the Actuarial Society of SA to coincide with World Aids Day.
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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 -- A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats -- AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism -- South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party, the African National Congress, has accused the US government of treating Africans like &quot;guinea pigs&quot; by promoting the use of the anti-Aids drug nevirapine.
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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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AIDS-stricken Southern African nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on Tuesday.
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South Africa have shrugged off accusations of negative tactics before the second and final test against India which starts on Sunday.
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South Africa announces a five-year plan to try to fight Aids and halve infection rates, on World Aids Day.
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AIDS-stricken Southern African  nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to  fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS  agency said on Tuesday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9--President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure a worried South Africa that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 10 -- South Africa's government has scaled back the influence of its minister for AIDS policy, pilloried for questioning the effectiveness of antiretroviral drug treatments and promoting beetroot, garlic and African potatoes as ways to fight AIDS.
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A South African doctor faces censure for citing Aids on a death certificate against family wishes.
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The top UN AIDS official in Uganda is denying reports the government is pressuring his agency not to promote the use of condoms. However, heâs concerned that some people may be trying to mix facts about HIV/AIDS with ideology.
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The South African government&#39;s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in KwaZulu-Natal province has raised fears among AIDS activists that children&#39;s rights to health care and life are being violated.
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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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African, especially southern African, nations must link tuberculosis testing and treatment with HIV prevention programs if they are to win the AIDS battle, a top World Health Organisation official said on Thursday.