South Africa\'s ARV supporter sacked from Health Ministry

South Africa\'s Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, who shifted government policy away from treating HIV/AIDS with traditional medicine or a  healthier diet to greater use of antiretroviral drugs (Marketletters  passim) has been sacked, according to local reports. Ms Hogan, who was  appointed in a blaze of enthusiasm late last year, with HIV activists  holding street parties to celebrate the removal of the controversial  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, was allegedly demoted to responsibility for  public enterprises because of her outspoken and public criticism of the  government\'s policy of not allowing the Dalai Lama to visit South  Africa and the remaining skepticism among some African National Congress  colleagues over the ARV treatment campaign.