Dieting AIDS:

Mantombazana Edmie Tshabalala-Msimang is South Africa's Health minister. She has upset the medical profession, and others, with her plans to combat AIDS through her preferred alternative to mainstream antiviral treatments: a nutritious diet based on garlic, beetroot,lemon and African potatoes.

At a recent international AIDS conference in Canada, allAfrica.com reports, her ministry's display stand shocked the assembled delegates,

Woven telephone wire baskets filled with lemons, garlic, beetroot and African potato were on display in the bare stall. One bottle of multivitamins stood alongside a bag of samp and other nutritional mixtures in plastic bags.

Well, South Africa wanted majority rule and they got it.