Mauritanian HIV patients protest World Bank policy
2009-10-15
Dozens of HIV-positive Mauritanians on Wednesday (October 14th) held a sit-in in front of World Bank offices in Nouakchott to demand the resumption of a project related to their care, APA reported. The National Aids Project, co-financed by the World Bank, was suspended after Nouakchott prosecutors charged its executive director with embezzlement. Two other employees are under investigation.
"Patients cannot wait for the result of the investigations," Houssein Ould Sid Ahmed, president of the AIDS charity Association of Hope and Life, told ANI. Only 1,000 HIV-positive patients received antiretroviral drugs even before the project's suspension, out of 2,700 registered HIV patients in Mauritania.
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