Medicines without Doctors: in Mozambique, salaries are not the biggest problem

The Mozambican Ministry of Health received hundred of millions of dollars from international donors for the National AIDS Plan, while the Faculty of Medicine, dependant on the Ministry of Education, was struggling to survive. Doctors are not only needed for the HIV/AIDS epidemic--they also treat the...

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Published in:PLoS medicine 2007-07, Vol.4 (7), p.e236-e236
Main Author: de Onate, Wouter Arrazola
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Correspondence
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Distribution
Expatriates
Financing, Organized - organization & administration
Health Manpower - economics
Health Personnel
Health Policy
Health Services Administration/Management
HIV Infection/AIDS
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Medically underserved areas
Medicine in Developing Countries
Mozambique
Physicians
Public Health and Epidemiology
Public opinion
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
Tropical diseases
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Summary:The Mozambican Ministry of Health received hundred of millions of dollars from international donors for the National AIDS Plan, while the Faculty of Medicine, dependant on the Ministry of Education, was struggling to survive. Doctors are not only needed for the HIV/AIDS epidemic--they also treat the many cases of malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea in children, leishmaniasis, fistula, sexually transmitted infections...
ISSN:1549-1676
1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040236