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A Coup That Could Turn the Tide on AIDS
Jan 21, 2007
by Laurie Goering
Over the last decade, South Africa's government has been less than assertive in combating its AIDS epidemic.
But the sometimes-comic, often-tragic soap opera that has been the country's response to the problem has taken a spectacular and positive twist: a coup.
With internationally pilloried Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on sick leave and out of the office--she hasn't elaborated on the reason for her extended absence--her fed-up underlings and the country's vice president have taken over, apparently with the president's support
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 25 January 2007
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