According to Michael Wines of the New York Times in his article "Official in Furor on AIDS Policy In South Africa is Hospitalized" published on February 23 of 2007, Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the South African minister of health is in the Johanesburg hospital due to severe anemia and a lung infection. Dr. Manto promoted garlic and beetroot as protection against AIDS in her country which showed her nation's slow response to the HIV epidemic that now plagues the country. The Dr. of 66 years is the most controversial official in her country's government and has been a target of many AIDS activists and groups and even medical experts since the beginning of this decade. The Dr. was against many forms of treatment for the virus and seemed to do a great deal of things to stop or atleast slow the distribution of them in the country.

I find it crazy that this Dr. is still the minister health in the country. She obviously isn't doing her job too well. I won't say that her being hospitalized is a good thing by any means, but i think it's a sign that perhaps she should step down and let someone better suited and perhaps a bit younger step up to the plate.