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Much-criticized health minister booted

Chicago Tribune - September 27, 2008


CAPE TOWN - AIDS activists on Friday celebrated the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless deaths by promoting supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV.

New President Kgalema Motlanthe, within hours of taking office Thursday, won instant praise by announcing that Manto Tshabalala-Msimang would be removed as health minister.

South Africa now has the world's highest number of people with HIV, with some 5.4 million people, activists say.


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