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Nature 444, 663 (7 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444663a; Published online 6 December 2006

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South Africa takes steps to tackle HIV

Michael Cherry

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Government finally faces up to pandemic.

At last, the South African government seems to have agreed to tackle the AIDS pandemic in a whole-hearted manner. Admitting that "we all know that HIV and AIDS are among us", deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka appealed to South Africans on 1 December, World AIDS Day, to "join hands to save our people, in the same way that we joined hands to fight and defeat apartheid".