Mozambique reviews HIV strategy

Mozambique's government has announced plans to review its strategy to fight HIV/AIDS after discovering current plans to prevent the disease are ineffective.

A government minister identified ten key areas that required particular attention, including co-ordination and co-operation between groups in the country trying to combat the disease, AllAfrica.com reported.

Health Minister Ivo Garrido also highlighted the need to look at alternative methods of HIV/AIDS testing and counselling.

"Other experiences show that there are more effective ways of counselling and testing than the ones we have been using," he said.

When asked for a start date for the country's new strategy, Mr Garrido said: "It is our wish that, at least by early next year proposals on coordination will exist."

World Health Organization statistics indicated that, in 2005, there were an estimated 1.8 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, with 140,000 dying from the disease that year.

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