Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
During the opening ceremony of the 2008 AIDS Vaccine Conference in Cape Town, Barbara Hogan who was recently appointed Minister of Health following the demise of Dr Beetroot, said "We know that HIV causes Aids".
It was a "breath of fresh air" reacted Alan Berstein, executive director of the Global HIV ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe sworn in as South Africa's president replacing Thabo Mbeki has appointed Ms Barbara Hogan as Minister of Health and Dr Molefi Sefularo as the Deputy Minister of Health.
Barbara Hogan who was pushed out of Parliament in 2003 in part for her refusal to accept Mbeki's denialist stance on ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
It is revelation's time for AIDS Inc. Two months ago Kevin de Cock, the epidemiologist heading the HIV-AIDS program with the World Health Organisation, briefly acknowledged, before recanting, that the threat of an heterosexual AIDS pandemic outside of Africa had disappeared and this month at the XVII International AIDS conference ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
The XVII International AIDS Conference will run from 3 to 8 August 2008 in Mexico City and one can already hear the drums of war beating backstage. As a science editorial puts it, Money matters, and who is going to get it matters even more. Though evidence-based approaches should be ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Kevin de Cock briefly admitted that the threat of an heterosexual AIDS pandemic outside of Africa had disappeared, but the pandemic is well and alive in Africa where it is affecting more and more heterosexual couples as observed in a study by Dr Kristin Dunkle and colleagues from the Emory ...
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