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From:	Adeyemo Gabriel [ profile ]
Subject:	More health workers needed to achieve HIV/AIDS targets
Sent:	Feb 5th, 2011 - 06:06:24

	Date: 2 February 2011 Source:* IRIN PlusNews* http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=91813 Fellow Advocate, With the current number of health workers worldwide, most developing countries will not be able to achieve Millennium Development Goal 6, which includes universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment by 2015, according to a 2011 World Health Organization (WHO) report which reviewed progress in five countries. By the end of 2009 only 36 percent of 14.5 million HIV-positive people in low- and middle-income countries in need of antiretroviral treatment (ART) received it, in large part because of the lack of healthcare workers, according to the UN. New HIV treatment guidelines issued in late 2009 boosted the number deemed in need of treatment. WHO estimated in 2006 a shortage of 4.3 million health workers globally - 1.5 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone. The need would only grow as the population grows and HIV infections increase, said the 2011 WHO report. In analyses of HIV programming over the past decade in Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Thailand and Zambia, only Thailand -- where the health worker shortage is less severe than in the other countries -- had achieved near universal access to HIV medication (78 percent). HIV prevalence in the five countries varied from 15.2 percent in Zambia to 1.4 percent in Thailand. * - Recommendations* In addition to bolstering community health workers to take on HIV care and prevention, the report recommended: 1. Not neglecting HIV prevention programmes 2. Keeping health workers in remote areas* 3. Figuring out how many health workers are needed to achieve universal access 4. *Improving overall management of human resources Please click on the link above to read the complete article. -- Many Thanks Yours' in Prevention Science Adeyemo Damilare Gabriel Moderator: Students' for Microbicides (S4M), Nigeria Regional Focal Point - West Africa Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AID +234-80-6798-7317 \| gabriel (at) gyca.org www.gyca.org \| www.tigweb.org GYCA is a youth-led global network of more than 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.

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