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Cabinet sidelines AIDS policy minister

Chicago Tribune - September 10, 2006


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- 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.

Government spokesman Themba Maseko defended Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang but said Friday that the Cabinet had appointed a committee, headed by Deputy President Phumzilie Mlambo-Ngcuka, to oversee the implementation of South Africa's AIDS program.

In an open letter to President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday, 81 international AIDS scientists called the health minister an embarrassment to South Africa who has undermined HIV science.

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