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New York Times: S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy

posted on 27 August, 2009 under In the Media, News

The New York Times has published an article about the latest Lancet special series on health in South Africa. HEU research featured in the Lancet is listed as follows:

  • MOONEY, G. & GILSON, L. The economic situation in South Africa and health inequities.
  • COOVADIA, H., JEWKES, R., BARRON, P., SANDERS, D. & MCINTYRE, D. The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges.

“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”……Read full article

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