HIV/AIDS through Unsafe Medical Care (8)
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Dear AFRO-NETS colleagues,
Thank you Agnes Moses for your reference to labour wards. When I
first got concerned about the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa and started
to try to understand the issues..... one of my friends.... who sadly
has full blown AIDS.... told me of her concern about the procedures
that are commonplace in labour wards in Africa including not only the
re-use of "single use disposable" syringes but also the use of latex
gloves over and over again during the birthing of infants.
All of these practices are easy to correct..... BUT ONLY IF THERE ARE
THE RESOURCES TO DO IT RIGHT.
BUT..... there is not a health ministry in Africa that has the re-
sources to do it right.
Public finance is in complete chaos after 40 years of international
assistance and prioritization of African economies and now more than
20 years of structural adjustment. The human capacity to do much bet-
ter exists. The financial capacity in the SOUTH to do much better
does not.
Sincerely,
Peter Burgess
ATCnet
mailto:Profitinafrica@aol.com
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