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Clare Christian

She's a former member of the Legislative Council and former Health Minister of the Isle of Man Government.

Emtricitabine/tenofovir/efavirenz

In South Africa, the National Minister of Health, Doctor Aaron Motsoaledi, administered to the first state patient a fixed dose combination (FDC) tablet of Emtricitabine/Tenofovir/Efavirenz on 9 April 2013 in GaRankuwa.


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2009 Brazilian girl abortion case

On 9 March 2009, Health Minister Temporão interrupted the opening ceremony of a national medical convention on women's health in Brasília in order to compliment Dr Olímpio Moraes, one of the doctors who carried out the abortion and who was in attendance.

Health Minister José Gomes Temporão directed his criticism against the Catholic Church's position, describing it as "extreme, radical and inadequate".

2010 Dutch cabinet formation

Mark Rutte (VVD) had Edith Schippers MP with him, Maxime Verhagen (CDA) was accompanied by caretaker health minister Ab Klink and Geert Wilders (PVV) chose Barry Madlener MEP.

Adego Erhiawarie Eferakeya

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned former Health Minister, Adenike Grange and nine others over corruption, including Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello.

Ali al-Omair

On February 19, 2007, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie submitted a motion to formally question Health Minister Sheik Ahmed Abdullah Al Ahmed Al Sabah about allegations of favoritism, deteriorating health services offered by state hospitals, and wasting public money by sending people for treatment abroad at the country's expense when they could be treated at home.

Ammar al-Saffar

In February 2007, another Deputy Health Minister, Hakim al-Zamili, and General Hamid al-Shammari, were both arrested on suspicion they had played a role in Saffar and others' kidnappings.

André-Joseph Léonard

In respose to his appointment, Deputy Prime Minister Laurette Onkelinx, who is also the country’s health minister, said, “Church and State are separate in Belgium, but when there are problems in our society, all the social partners sit down around a table, including representatives of secularism and of religion. Cardinal Danneels was a man of openness, of tolerance and was able to fit in there. Archbishop Léonard has already regularly challenged decisions made by our parliament.”

Anne Turner

Anne Milton (born Anne Turner, 1955), British nurse, policitian (conservative MP, Shadow Health Minister)

Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan

He was given heart massage in the House of Lords by, among others, Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, the health minister.

Friends Of Science In Medicine

In September 2012, FSM was involved in lobbying the Australian Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, to expand the chief medical officer's study into complimentary medicine to include chiropractic and acupuncture.

Igandu train disaster

The shortage of doctors at Dodoma hospital was so severe that the Tanzanian health minister, Mrs Anna Abdallah was obliged to help with the more than 400 people badly injured.

Iraq Family Health Survey

The previous Iraqi health minister, Ali al-Shemari, in early November 2006 estimated between 100,000 and 150,000 people had been killed since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

Irreligion in Australia

Fifteen declined to comment, ten said they were "Christian" and three stated that they were atheists: health minister Nicola Roxon, defence personnel minister Greg Combet and financial services minister Chris Bowen.

Jean-François Mattei

Mattei served as health minister during the 2003 European heat wave, in which over 11000 French people, mostly elderly, died of heat-related illnesses.

José Cardoso Sobrinho

President Lula da Silva and Health Minister José Gomes Temporão decried his statement, and the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil disowned it, saying that the mother was certainly not excommunicated and there was insufficient evidence to show that any member of the medical team was.

Nauru First

Its founding members were Kieren Keke (a medical doctor), David Adeang (a legal counsel and former finance minister), Marlene Moses (former health minister), Roland Kun (director of the island's fisheries), Sean Oppenheimer (manager of Capelle's, the country's largest private enterprise), who has since resigned from the party due to death threats, and Sprent Dabwido (an insurance worker).

Nola Fraser

On 5 November 2002, Fraser took her concerns to the health minister, and her local member of parliament, Craig Knowles.

Peter Beazley

The former junior Health Minister Edwina Currie was selected to follow him but lost the seat to Labour in the 1994 elections.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

On October 14, 2011, Hancock and NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner announced the official declaration of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in NSW.

Protests against the Iraq War

The son of Lord Hunt, a junior health Minister who quit his job over the march, was amongst the students in attendance.

Silent Minority

It was reported in Glasgow Herald that British health officials protesting release of the documentary, and that British Health Minister Sir George Young attacked the film as not being a true representation of such hospitals.

Smoking in France

In May 2013 Marisol Touraine, France's Health Minister, announced that the ban on smoking in public places would also be extended to electronic cigarettes as they could encourage "mimicking" behavior, potentially leading persons into smoking actual cigarettes.

St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls, Boksburg

Barbara Hogan, Minister of Public Enterprise, former Health Minister, activist

T. T. Durai

In May 2004, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan informed Parliament that the NKF had treated 1,414 patients in 1999 and 1,512 patients in 2003.

Tom Bathurst

His father, Hugh Moxon Bathurst, had been private secretary to Senator James Fraser, Chifley's Health minister, when his engagement to tennis champion Joan Marcia Hartigan was announced.

Tupou College

Viliami Tangi, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister