Cabinet Positions
In 2001, she became Federal Minister for Health under Gerhard Schröder. A year later, the responsibility for social security was added to her portfolio and she was appointed Federal Minister for Health and Social Security.
In November 2005, she again became Federal Minister for Health in the grand coalition of Angela Merkel. Social security was reunited with the portfolio of labour, which in 2002 had been added to that of the Federal Minister for Economics.
In 2009, she criticized statements made by Pope Benedict XVI, who claimed that condom usage promoted AIDS.
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