South Africa: New health minister to champion AIDS treatment

South Africa's new health minister, Barbara Hogan, has listed the twin epidemics of HIV and TB as among the most serious health challenges facing the country.

3 Oct 2008

Addressing journalists on Thursday, 2 October, she promised to involve "all sections of our society" in the government's HIV/AIDS response. "I don't want our Ministry to become a bubble that's impervious to the outside world," she said.

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