UNAIDS: The First 10 Years

UNAIDS The First 10 Years200Salary top-ups of more than 50% have improved retention and recruitment of health professionals,and the schools will increase their output of health professionals by 50% – doublethe number of nurses and triple the doctors in training. Morah commented: “We’ve neverbeen able to attract all the graduating nurses, but the last class that graduated, about 43,all of them joined the Ministry of Health, unlike before, where they would get, maybe, onethirdif they’re lucky or just a handful”.An innovative source of technical assistance:technical resource facilitiesTechnical support has been a long-standing and unresolved problem in international cooperationon development. Most developing countries lack the number of people needed withthe technical expertise in many areas of AIDS work, and look to the UN and to consultantsA child watches his motheron a antiretroviral drip in ahospital in Tigray, Ethiopia.Panos/Pep Bonet