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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Southern Africa: Health Worker Shortage Limits Access to HIV/Aids Treatment

Southern Africa: Health Worker Shortage Limits Access to HIV/Aids Treatment
The dire lack of health care workers in southern Africa is threatening efforts to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment, warned the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report issued today. The report covers four southern African countries—Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa—where more than one million people still need life-saving antiretroviral treatment but do not have access to it.

 



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