AFRICA: African Countries Urged to Treat HIV-Positive People Properly

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AFRICA: African Countries Urged to Treat HIV-Positive People Properly

Xinhua News Agency (10.14.04) - Friday, October 15, 2004

On Thursday, delegates to the Fourth African Development Forum meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, heard the former prime minister of Mozambique warn of dire consequences if HIV- positive people do not receive treatment. "The future of our societies is tied to keeping these people alive," said Pascoal Mocumbi. "There is no escaping the fact that the loss of teachers, health workers and civil servants at the rates witnessed today threatens deterioration and eventual collapse [of the societies]," he said, adding, "The cost of writing off HIV-infected people is too high to contemplate." There is an absence of knowledge regarding HIV's impact on governance, particularly on society's skills base, Mocumbi said. The Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA), of which he is a member, will work to help governments understand the implications of AIDS on human capacity and related planning and budgetary matters. CHGA was set up in 2003 to consider the long-term consequences of the AIDS pandemic and to devise recommendations.
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