Lack of 'warm hands' will render health care system 'impotent'.

摘要

With one in seven nurses and nursing students in the public sector now HIV positive and more nurses suffering from full-blown AIDS than are actually being produced, the system could shortly be rendered impotent, respected researcher, Dr Olive Shisana, has warned.Nurses are being left largely to fend for themselves, except for a foreign NGO/local nursing union HIV awareness /support programme run at one hospital each in seven provinces, and a hugely under-promoted state employee assistance programme. Shisana's research, published over a year ago, has passed largely unnoticed, and inaction since her sweeping recommendations last February has angered both the deputy chairperson of the SA National AIDS Council (SANAC) and the HIV Clinicians Society.