JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Researchers in South African say there is no evidence healthier eating is an effective treatment for AIDS or tuberculosis.

PRETORIA, South Africa, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- President Thabo Mbeki’s firing of a deputy health minister has brought condemnation from AIDS activists in South Africa and across the world.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang -- criticized for telling those with HIV to take garlic, beets and lemon -- has been replaced.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Pressure is mounting on South Africa's Health Minister to resign for suggesting garlic, lemons and African potatoes as alternative HIV treatment.

DURBAN, South Africa, June 7 (UPI) -- The second HIV-AIDS conference in South Africa, where one-in-five adults is infected, is mired in controversy on the best way to fight the dreaded virus.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Officials in South Africa are investigating allegations that paramedics in Johannesburg left a homeless man to die on the street.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- South Africa, long criticized for failing to fight AIDS vigorously, announced Wednesday a plan to give free AIDS drugs to more than five million patients. "I don't want to raise false hopes, but a decision has been made. There is hope," said Manto Tshabal