1. In Shift, South Africa Embraces Report Critical of Its Health Policy.
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DUGGER, CELIA W.
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HEALTH policy , *PUBLIC health , *NATIONAL health services , *AIDS , *DIAGNOSIS - Abstract
Leading South African scientists challenged the governing party on Monday to break with its deeply flawed record on AIDS and public health, spurring the country's new health minister to say that he and his party shared their diagnosis of systemic problems and were determined to repair them. The decision by the health minister, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, to embrace the often withering assessment of his party's failings, laid out in six papers published online Monday by The Lancet, a medical journal based in London, provided a strong signal that the governing party's new leadership intended to shake up a badly managed health system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009