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    links for 2006-08-22

    tshabalala – Google News SA Health Minister Manto Tschabalala-Misingo should be sacked immediately for her wrongheaded and completely idiotic reliance on lemons, garlic, beetroot and African potatoes to fight AIDS, instead of getting anti-retroviral drugs out to the people who ne (tags: AIDS Africa Tshabalala Idiot)

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    Paragraph By Paragraph: Obama Rules, SA Health Minister Not So Much

    Senator Obama says to get African HIV test?|?Health?|?Reuters.co.uk CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Barack Obama, the only black U.S. senator, criticized South African leaders on Monday for their slow response to AIDS and said he planned to be tested for HIV while visiting Kenya later on his African trip. I love Obama. But it still shocks me that he’s still the only black senator. That is so, so wrong. I hope that he’s not alone come the first Wednesday in November. Is anyone else black running, from either party? South African AIDS activists say Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has created confusion…