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Emigrating doctors hamper HIV/AIDS fight

    JOHANNESBURG

    The emigration of African health professionals has worsened HIV/AIDS on the continent, a five-day AIDS conference in Botswana has heard.

    Sixty-seven delegates from 16 African countries, the Caribbean and the US are currently negotiating ways of strengthening laboratory techniques and practices in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

    However, Botswana Local Government Minister, Gladys Kokorwe, said the emigration of health professionals had created a "deleterious effect" on the quality of health services in Africa.

    Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Kokorwe as saying: "The movement of health professionals and scientists has depleted already scarce human resources and left many of our countries in dire need of these health professionals."

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