South Africa: Minister reports back

Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang used her quarterly briefing to chastise the media for lending coverage to Jacob Zuma’s shower comments, for reporting “only on HIV/AIDS” and for discounting her claims on nutrition. She was updating the media on progress being made by Government’s social cluster in Pretoria. The minister also revealed that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) health ministers were in the process of establishing an AIDS fund “to do certain things”.