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PEPFAR to Train Thousands of African Healthcare Workers
July 28, 2010
By Joe DeCapua
The success of PEPFAR - the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - depends in large part on healthcare workers in African countries. But there’s a shortage of those workers, as many leave for better opportunities elsewhere. As a result, PEPFAR has a new program to try to solve the problem. The issue was addressed at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna.
The new phase of PEPFAR - known as PEPFAR II - calls for extending treatment to more than four million patients, preventing 12 million new infections and providing care for 12 million people living with HIV.
"To meet these goals, PEPFAR will need to support the training of large numbers of new healthcare workers in order to deliver the services," says Deborah von Zinkernagel, the principal deputy U.S. global AIDS coordinator.
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 29 July 2010
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