February 28, 2008

Mozambique’s Health Minister Nixes AIDS "Day Hospitals"

Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido has eliminated “Day Hospitals” for people living with HIV from the country’s medical facilities, Maputo newspaper Noticias/Allafrica.com reports (allafrica.com, 2/27).

According to the article, Garrido saw the separate HIV/AIDS hospices—which separate people living with HIV from the rest of the patients in hospitals or health units—as discriminatory, possibly deterring people from people seeking HIV care.

“The Day Hospitals have no place in the structure of the Ministry of Health,” says Garrido. “And that is why I have decided to abolish them.”

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