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Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South African health minister: The fight against HIV/AIDS continues.

Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South African health minister: The fight against HIV/AIDS continues.

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Mayeni Jones speaks to Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South African health minister

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“Even though we say we want to be self-sufficient, we don't think
global solidarity must be dropped. Because if it gets dropped,
the world will be in trouble.”

Mayeni Jones the BBC’s Africa correspondent speaks to Dr Aaron
Motsoaledi South Africa’s health minister a year on since the US
announced foreign aid cuts. At the time he called the USAID
freeze a wake up call for Africa.

Dr Motsoaledi, has been at the centre of South Africa’s public
health response for more than a decade. A medical doctor by
training, he first took on the health portfolio in 2009,
overseeing the world’s largest HIV treatment programme.

In this conversation he explains how the country is filling the
aid gap and where progress stands in the fight against HIV and
AIDS. The Interview brings you conversations with people shaping
our world, from all over the world. The best interviews from the
BBC, including episodes with Syria’s only female cabinet
minister, Hind Kabawat, Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas
Opiyo and Mexican actor, Diego Calva. You can listen on the BBC
World Service on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 0800 GMT. Or
you can listen to The Interview as a podcast, out three times a
week on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts.

Presenter: Mayeni Jones Producers: Ed Habershon, Farhana Haider
Editor: Justine Lang

Get in touch with us on email TheInterview@bbc.co.uk and use the
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(Image: Dr Aaron Motsoaledi Credit: PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty
Images)