South Africa strikes new tone on Aids

South Africa’s new health minister today broke dramatically from a decade of discredited government policies on Aids, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine.

Health Minister Barbara Hogan’s pronouncement marked the official end to 10 years of denial about the link between HIV and Aids by former President Thabo Mbeki and his health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.