HIV
HEALTH WORKERS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA TO BE LINKED TO AIDS NETWORK

Health care workers in southern Africa will soon be hooked up to an internet information network linking them with HIV/Aids specialists throughout the world. The US-based International Association of Physicians in Aids Care will link hospitals and clinics in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland with 10000 physicians in 52 countries.

Information available on the network will include issues relevant to the care of HIV/Aids sufferers who cannot afford expensive drugs. The Association says they will also be looking at basic things as monitoring, palliative care and life issues that are relevant to the southern African experience. A critical component of the programme is HIV/Aids training for participating physicians through monthly conferences across the world wide web. Those in southern Africa will take part in virtual lectures with colleagues in the rest of the world and share documents and medical applications.

US pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb has provided 2,3 million rand for the project.

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