Africa: AIDS Bigger Brain Drain Than Emigration

Posted August 7, 2006 in News

"Stopping the brain drain requires an unprecedented level of co-operation.

"Keeping HIV-positive professionals alive and at work in their home countries is a simpler task and one that we know how to do." Experts said the major problem was that people with HIV struggled to get access to antiretroviral drugs.

A spokeswoman for the Terrence Higgins Trust charity said: "HIV affects all levels of society - the medical profession is no different. "We know that the health workforce is losing workers and this is partly because of a lack of access to drug treatment which can keep people working.

"This has the added problem that there is then less professionals to look after the sick. Action is needed."

Source: BBC News Online

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