New York Times Editorial Addresses Dismissal of South African Deputy Health Minister
When South African President Thabo Mbeki last week dismissed Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, he "fired one of the few effective AIDS fighters in his administration," a New York Times editorial says. Madlala-Routledge "provided a brief interlude of sanity and seriousness after" Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang "fell ill last fall," the editorial says, adding, "Over the next nine months," Madlala-Routledge "promoted an ambitious but attainable goal of" reducing by half the number of new HIV cases and providing treatment access to 80% of people in need by 2011 (New York Times, 8/14).
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