Free Resource for Health Providers to Manage HIV in Africa

Today, University of Toronto researchers and their partners in Zambia, Kenya, South Africa and Canada launched a free website to help health workers improve the quality of life of adults and children living with HIV throughout Africa. [...] The medications that allow people to live with HIV can cause problems to the heart, lungs and liver. [...] In the late 1990s, as the combination therapies brought many people in Canada and other wealthy countries back from the brink of death, many hospitals offered free rehabilitation to help people regain function and independence. [...] Nixon is among a small group of experts throughout Africa and Canada attempting to bring rehabilitation in the context of HIV to the continent on a meaningful scale. [...] It’s designed to be a one-stop resource for physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other health workers who can quickly and easily research the most common HIV-related disabilities, and find evidence- based rehabilitation solutions, says Nixon, who is also director of U of T’s International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation and co-founder of the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Reha.