Ifølge en rapport fra Verdenssundheds-organisationen (WHO) vil det med den nuværende mængde sundhedspersonale på verdensplan være svært for de fleste udviklingslande at opnå 2015-mål nr. 6, der omfatter behandling af alle hiv/aids-ramte, skriver PlusNews.
BANGKOK, 2 February 2011 (PlusNews): By the end of 2009 only 36 percent of 14,5 million HIV-positive people in low- and middle-income countries in need of antiretroviral treatment (ART) received it, in large part because of the lack of healthcare workers, according to the UN.
New HIV treatment guidelines issued in late 2009 boosted the number deemed in need of treatment.
WHO estimated in 2006 a shortage of 4,3 million health workers globally – 1,5 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone. The need would only grow as the population grows and HIV infections increase, said the 2011 WHO report.
In analyses of HIV programming over the past decade in Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Thailand and Zambia, only Thailand – where the health worker shortage is less severe than in the other countries – had achieved near universal access to HIV medication (78 percent).
HIV prevalence in the five countries varied from 15,2 percent in Zambia to 1,4 percent in Thailand.
