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South Africa loses $1.4 billion training doctors who emigrated

South Africa, the nation with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS, has spent more than $1.4 billion training doctors, only to see them emigrate overseas for jobs. It's part of a massive flow of expertise from from poor and developing countries to rich nations such as the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia.

Published
26 November 2011
From
Los Angeles Times
Delivery of care
Overcrowding at clinics deter men from early testing for TB and HIV

During a recent door to door campaign, TAC Khayelitsha found that most men are not keen to test for TB or HIV because of long waiting periods associated with overcrowding at the local clinics. Imagine what strides would be made in better healthcare

Published
01 July 2011
From
TAC
Health services and systems
South Africa: How we're re-engineering the health system - Motsoaledi

South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi reviews progress on health reform in a speech to the South African parliament, highlighting progress on HIV and TB treatment.

Published
31 May 2011
From
PoliticsWeb
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Kenya: Staff Sackings Leave Siaya Aids Patients Unattended

HIV/Aids patients yesterday jammed the Siaya District Hospital after failing to be attended to for the second day, following the sacking of over 20 support staff. Peer educators who carry out support tasks in the clinic were sacked this week after protesting overwork and delays in payment.

Published
08 April 2011
From
Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed
Finance and funding
Kenya: Rush to seek Aids drugs strains clinics

In less than a year, more than 70,000 people have joined the HIV treatment programme, exerting massive pressure on drugs, facilities and personnel.

Published
30 March 2011
From
Daily Nation
Delivery of care
Swaziland nurses strike, closing public hospitals

A Swaziland union official says public hospitals closed for three days this week after nurses went on strike in the country with the highest rate of HIV in the world.

Published
14 March 2011
From
Seattle Times
Delivery of care
US funding program to increase quality, quantity of health care workers in Africa

The top U.S. AIDS official says the U.S. will fund training for 140,000 African health care workers in an initiative to "transform and dramatically increase" medical education and research on the continent.

Published
08 March 2011
From
Yahoo News / AP
TB diagnosis
ZAMBIA: Better health comes in containers

New technologies are helping Zambia make the most of its scarce health workers and laboratories in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), and showing that there may be more to a container than meets the eye.

Published
27 January 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Delivery of care
2010: 30 nurses die of AIDS in Malawi

Nurses Organization for Nurses and Midwives (NONM)-Malawi has revealed that about 30 nurses died of AIDS related illness in 2010.

Published
21 January 2011
From
Africa News
Task shifting
SOUTH AFRICA: Nurses step into ART breach

At Malvern Clinic, a primary healthcare facility serving an impoverished suburb east of Johannesburg's city centre, every seat was taken on a recent Monday morning.

Published
15 December 2010
From
IRIN Plus News
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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