Doors closed to nurses trying to conduct survey Wealthy South Africans are apparently reluctant to allow nurses conducting South Africa's biggest HIV survey into their homes, leaving researchers in the dark as to how many of them have the virus. Whites and Indians living in wealthy suburbs are refusing access to staff from the third South African national HIV behaviour and health 2008 survey, conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council, because they think Aids doesn't affect the rich. "People say to us: ‘We have no Aids in this community, or in this street. Why don't you go down the road to that squatter settlement?'" said HSRC senior researcher Shandir Ramlagan. Read the article online ...
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