Will Universal Access to Antiretroviral Therapy Ever be Possible? The Health Care Worker Challenge
The United Nations millennium development goal of providing universal access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for patients living with HIV/AIDS by 2010 is unachievable. Currently, four million people are receiving ART, of an estimated 13.7 million who need it. A major challenge to achieving this goal...
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| description | The United Nations millennium development goal of providing universal access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for patients living with HIV/AIDS by 2010 is unachievable. Currently, four million people are receiving ART, of an estimated 13.7 million who need it. A major challenge to achieving this goal is the shortage of health care workers in low-income and low-resource areas of the world. Sub-Saharan African countries have 68% of the world’s burden of illness from AIDS, yet have only 3% of health care workers worldwide. The shortage of health care providers is primarily caused by a national and international ‘brain drain,’ poor distribution of health care workers within countries, and health care worker burnout. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d664d99fbb5e41a79b20ba7a2aca93bc2025-08-20T02:19:40ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology1712-95322010-01-01211e64e6910.1155/2010/432306Will Universal Access to Antiretroviral Therapy Ever be Possible? The Health Care Worker ChallengeAndré R Maddison0Walter F Schlech1Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaThe United Nations millennium development goal of providing universal access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for patients living with HIV/AIDS by 2010 is unachievable. Currently, four million people are receiving ART, of an estimated 13.7 million who need it. A major challenge to achieving this goal is the shortage of health care workers in low-income and low-resource areas of the world. Sub-Saharan African countries have 68% of the world’s burden of illness from AIDS, yet have only 3% of health care workers worldwide. The shortage of health care providers is primarily caused by a national and international ‘brain drain,’ poor distribution of health care workers within countries, and health care worker burnout.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/432306 |
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