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Despondent voices seek leadership & delivery [26-03-2002]
The 2001 South African Health Review (SAHR) has made a priority in its
annual report card of reflecting what South African patients, politicians
and health workers have to say about health services and delivery.
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"HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa was less than 1% in 1990 (almost a decade after the first HIV diagnosis there in 1982). Yet, a decade later, the country was experiencing one of the fastest growing epidemics in the world, with prevalence among pregnant women at 24.5% by the end of 2000." - UN AIDS Report 2001
"AIDS is claiming the lives of health care professionals. In the six countries of southern Africa, for example, AIDS is expected to claim the lives of between 8 and 25 percent of today's practising doctors by the year 2005." - Univ. of California
"Aids would disappear instantly if all HIV testing were outlawed." - Dissident member of the presidential panel on Aids, Dr David Rasnick.
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