SOUTH AFRICA HIV AIDS MEDICINE – SOUTH AFRICA HOSPITAL NURSES
February 1st, 2006
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
SOUTH Africa's nurses are faced with a crisis of having to provide front line care to the country's six million HIV-AIDS sufferers. Political leadership is absent, funding is stretched and morale in the profession has slumped to alarming levels. Urgent action is needed, health experts warn.
South Africa's AIDS epidemic has grabbed the headlines as President Thabo Mbeki and his controversial health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang appear defiant to resist AIDS campaigners' demands for greater access to life-prolonging ...
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