Unlike her predecessors South Africa's new Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, is promoting safer sex, testing, antiretroviral drugs, and disease education to try and fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
For years HIV and AIDS were not talked about in public discourse and the former president and health minister even questioned the link between the two, creating confusion and misinformation around treatment.
In this report Ray Suarez talks to experts, citizens, and business owners about how South Africa's unique history of apartheid and gender relations helped to shape the AIDS epidemic there.
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"You know, we thought we got liberation, now we could move on. And now this deadly thing comes along and kind of mows us down. It's frightening."--Barbara Hogan, Health Minister
"Unfortunately, the numbers and the epidemic are moving in the wrong direction. We found that maternal deaths have increased instead of decreased, infant deaths have increased instead of decreased, and childhood deaths have increased, instead of decreased. So we have actually gone as a country in the wrong direction."
Apartheid Sowed Seeds of South Africa's AIDS Epidemic
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