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HIV/AIDS in South Africa
HIV/AIDS in South Africa
This second edition of the book provides up-to-date information on new drugs, new proven HIV prevention interventions, a new chapter on positive prevention, and current HIV epidemiology. This definitive text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic knowledge to medicine, sociology, economics and politics. It has been written by a highly respected team of South African HIV/AIDS experts and provides a thoroughly researched account of the epidemic in the region.
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When will the cure for HIV in Africa be proven. People are dying everyday in hundreds?
This is because HIV/ AIDS is a scourge that must be stopped previous to Africa is wiped off the surface of the earth. Inspite the campaign on HIV / AIDS the sciurge is still outrageous, people in the most premitive parts of Africa does not know and they that do, do not judge it is right that HIV is real. Besides the preventive or treatment rather which is not even the cure is not reaching the real people. The infection rate is far beyond the treatment rate. They are treating two while fifteen is contacting it.
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I want to go to third world countries and help children with AIDS and orphans in places like Africa.?
I dont have alot of money, in fact I dont have ANY money. How can I volunteer my time and efforts to other places and come up with the money to do these equipment?
I have volunteered here, and I do judge that we have alot to work on in the states. HOWEVER, I want to go to places everywhere poverty is the norm, and not the exception. I want to help children who’s parents died to nuture them and help bring happiness out of their tragedy. I cannot join the peace corps because they have too strict of regulations, and I dont have a degree in anything, nor any relevant privileged education.
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Doctor and Nurses Exodus Leaves Africa Health Care in Crisis
In Nairobi, Kenya, a very small, very basic house costs 3,500 shillings a month (£25) – very nearly three-quarters of a nurses salary and beyond the means of nurses with families to feed. But many complain not about the poor standard of housing, but about the fact that around a quarter of qualified Kenyan nurses have no permanent nursing jobs in a people with a health system in crisis.
Persons that have found work are often overworked and staff are leaving in droves, tempted by better conditions abroad, and they are not being replaced. There is a generous reservoir of unemployed nurses throughout most African countries but many governments claims that are forced to introduce recruitment freezes due to the conditions of the IMF/World Bank aid packages designed to force African countries to slim their bloated civil services.
Many health professionals have scrimped to find the money to qualify but then struggle to find work once qualifying. Now, like thousands of others, they are saving to leave for the UK and USA. The African government often promises that they will increase spending on healthcare but many never do.
The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain as disgruntled doctors and nurses scatter all over the world in search of better-paid and secure jobs. According to health ministry statistics in Zimbabwe, fewer than one in four posts for doctors is filled. Four out of five of the district hospitals that serve rural areas have no doctors. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Everywhere have they settled?
Not only are African governments, the IMF and World Bank building it hard for them to find jobs but just new rules designed to safeguard jobs for British trainee nurses have been introduced which could mean that thousands of foreign nurses already employed in the UK are forced out of work.
Recent studies in the UK say that as many as 80 per cent of nursing graduates are powerless to find work in the UK, the Government has indifferent nursing from its list of professions that bypass immigration rules in August 2006.
This means that overseas nurses will be given a job only if no suitable applicants come forward from Britain or Europe. But the change also applies to existing nurses from overseas once they reach the end of their contracts.
Overseas nurses have become the backbone of the health services in recent years, with 45 per cent of new nurses registered in Britain coming from abroad.
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AIDS in South Africa. What is the real number?
I just read that 8 million mothers in South Africa have AIDS (new divorce cases that persons sick mothers loose the children). If population is about 40 million, 8*3 (including male and children) = to 18 million. Therefore simple calculation = 50% population has AIDS. What do you reckon?
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HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa (“My South Africa”)
While i was in South Africa this past December i chose to do some research and interview some people to find out their opinions about the HIV/AIDS prevalence in the people. This is what i found.
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Would you rather the USA spend a little more on health programs at home or send money to Africa?
George Bush cut AIDS funding (Ryan White Curriculum) down to a 3rd of it’s size in his first year… as a result, the number of HIV infections in the USA went up by 15%.
In his 3rd year, while running for re-election, he sent a few Million dollars to help the AIDS efforts in Africa… and there was no visible change in the HIV status of Africans.
Was your heart warmed by this act of compassion?
Do you judge that our Head should place America first?
Do you reckon that it’s better to give aid to HIV+ persons in Africa because you reckon they somehow deserve the disease less?
What about when Celebrities do the same thing?
Do the rules change when it’s charity and not tax money?
Bob – the increase in HIV was mostly among African American women… but nice effort at being homophobic about it.
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I really want to write to a kid in Africa that has aids or is in an orphanage?
I cant find any websites that dont cost money! all i want to do is write to a kid in africa…and maybe send them gifts and pictures and get to know them…PLEASE HELP!!!