What are the major obstacles to getting effective healthcare to people living with HIV and AIDS in Africa?

In many areas of Africa there are sufficient supplies of anti-retro viral drugs to drastically improve the lives of many thousands of people with HIV and AIDS. However, all too frequently, these people can't get access to the healthcare they need.

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graft and corruption.

MONEY

The problem?

Getting Christianity and Islam OUT. They interfere with the distribution of condoms and also interfere with establishing worthwhile social structures necessary to combat this plague.

I would bet it is the same problems that keep food from getting to them - their corrupt leaders.

It's called lack of free market capitalism, with a rule of law, and representative governments. They are hopeless

i think most males need to be sterilized, or have vasectomy, to put an end to such deadly epidemic. until then, nothing will change.

they belive that if they have sex with a virgan that there aids will go away, guess whos going around raping people?

Beating teachers for letting children name teddy bears mohhamed?

How about the corruption of the africans themselves. we need to stop wasting our money.

with great respect to religion,but that is part of the problem,as many africans believe that god has punished them,and by praying harder,behaving yourself,having more faith,will cure the,sounds silly but I do know this,as was told to me by a nigerian friend.

The leaders of the countries (and whoever they're fighting this week).

Everything I've seen about this in the news and on television says these countries don't have enough of the antiviral medications. You are saying there are enough of these drugs to go around. If there are then maybe they should give the drugs to the sick people. Education is very important too. Many of the people who were infected were not aware of how they could have protected themselves from getting infected. Its very sad really. I hope one day they will come up with a cure./

First off I think that CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAMISTS are not the problem!! The problem is that people just dont want to help. Like me I want to help I just dont know where to go to help. So I think that people should stop blaming other religions and races for this issue. I'm sure that the Christians and the Islamists wouldn't care if they had comdoms. If whoever wrote that Christians and Islamists were the problem needs to realize that wearing a comdom doesn't make STD less vulnerable. Having sex is having sex and just cause you use protection doesn't mean that you have to wear a comdom to prevent STD. So get some common sence and learn your health facts buddy!!

Its not going to get any better is it?? Its been over 20 years since the first big push to help the continent and billions of dollars and years later its the same old story,the men want to shag anything that moves and refuse to wear condoms because they feel it challenges their virility,its got worse globally though through the many who have got out of the country and are knowingly infecting people worldwide..

Jobs. education, etc. People need money to survive and to gain knowledge of the disease they are exposed to or have. The big issue is money. They don't have it and ways of getting it are needed.

Even if the drugs were there, the money, everything was right, there would be a problem.


No one there wears a watch

I know it sounds dumb, but for effective viral drug treatment, frequency of dosage is essential to keeping the the patient in remission. If the drugs aren't taken properly, no amount of funds or drug access will help them.

It's a tough problem to solve.

The outright lying and fraudulent statements made by AIDS activist about the extent of AIDS in Africa.

When Activist, tell lies, to help what they preceieve as thier cause,

This erodes public confindence and support for future efforts.

We know know, activist have purposely been fabricating information about AIDS in Africa for the last 20 years.

A level of trust is gonna have to be reestablished again, before the world moves foward, concerning the Aids problem in Africa.

stop spreading aids and hiv.

Funding is the main problem of the projects against HIV and AIDS.

It needs to have African ownership of the problem and African ownership of the solution not an imposed western solution coming from people with western cultural values and standards.

African ownership & solution to the aids problem, boy, africans were & are the problem of aids & many other diseases, having lived in africa we know the problems, yes, hiv sufferers should be sterilised, preventing the spreading, of aids, we are always told that prevention is better than cure, why does this not apply to Africa ?? money is not the solution , that disseapears into the deep pockets of NGO,s sitting in fancy offices & travel in style & pay themselves grand salaries , NGO,s are mainly made up of people that would not be suitable to have a regular job in the west, but can lord it over others.
How can you possible influence the african male in s.africa when nelson mandela himself, in 1990, being asked his opinion of the de klerk govt. anti aids campaign responded that aids was a gay white problem, where men had sex with men & thus spread aids, his words, nothing to do with us, the black community, boy how wrong he is, he has never retracted this statement, and today is supposed patron of various ngo organisations, how hypocritical
Let the donors rather educate the masses in africa how to keep their pants zipped up & hei presto, problem solved

The ngo,s could also start by telling the whole truth about the anount of babies, some as young as 9 months, raped by numerous aid sufferers in the belief that having sex with virgings will cure them

Get rid of the no good ngo,s & get the african govt. to distribute the antiviral to their people, the are good at corruption, lies & stealing & tour their countyu when it comes to elections that surely they can also distribute the medicine

It is in the interest of ngo,s to keep up the pressure & spread their lies otherwise they be out of their well influential, well rewarded cushy numbers