Wednesday, June 6, 2007

S. Africa must raise wages to fight AIDS - activist

(Reuters) - South Africa will not be able to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS unless it increases wages for government health care workers and other public servants, the head of a leading HIV/AIDS advocacy group said on Wednesday.

In a presentation at the third South African AIDS conference, Siphokazi Mthathi, general secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign, warned that discontent in the public sector threatened to undermine the government's plan to expand the availability of life-saving AIDS drugs and other treatments to hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive people.


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