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The new report said high rates of AIDS mortality will persist in South Africa at least for the next decade, but much depended on the provision of treatment. It forecast that if 50 per cent of people with AIDS were given treatment, then by 2010 approximately 388,000 AIDS deaths would occur each year.
The South African government, long under fire for doing too little to prevent the spread of AIDS and to promote effective treatments, recently revamped its strategy. It gave responsibility to Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ncguka and effectively sidelined Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who has been criticized for praising garlic, lemons and the African potato as remedies while disparaging the benefits of antiretroviral medicines.See the full content of this document
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South African Teens Face Bleak Future
By Clare Nullis
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Fewer than half of South Africa's 15-year-olds will live to see their 60th birthda...See the full content of this document
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