What are the major obstacles to getting effective healthcare to people living with HIV and AIDS in Africa?

Beating teachers for letting children name teddy bears mohhamed? How about the corruption of the africans themselves. we need to stop wasting our money.

with great respect to religion,but that is part of the problem,as many africans believe that god has punished them,and by praying harder,behaving yourself,having more faith,will cure the,sounds silly but I do know this,as was told to me by a nigerian friend.

they belive that if they have sex with a virgan that there aids will go away, guess whos going around raping people?

I would bet it is the same problems that keep food from getting to them - their corrupt leaders.

The leaders of the countries (and whoever they're fighting this week).

First off I think that CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAMISTS are not the problem!! The problem is that people just dont want to help. Like me I want to help I just dont know where to go to help. So I think that people should stop blaming other religions and races for this issue. I'm sure that the Christians and the Islamists wouldn't care if they had comdoms. If whoever wrote that Christians and Islamists were the problem needs to realize that wearing a comdom doesn't make STD less vulnerable. Having sex is having sex and just cause you use protection doesn't mean that you have to wear a comdom to prevent STD. So get some common sence and learn your health facts buddy!!

The outright lying and fraudulent statements made by AIDS activist about the extent of AIDS in Africa. When Activist, tell lies, to help what they preceieve as thier cause, This erodes public confindence and support for future efforts. We know know, activist have purposely been fabricating information about AIDS in Africa for the last 20 years. A level of trust is gonna have to be reestablished again, before the world moves foward, concerning the Aids problem in Africa.

It's called lack of free market capitalism, with a rule of law, and representative governments. They are hopeless

African ownership & solution to the aids problem, boy, africans were & are the problem of aids & many other diseases, having lived in africa we know the problems, yes, hiv sufferers should be sterilised, preventing the spreading, of aids, we are always told that prevention is better than cure, why does this not apply to Africa ?? money is not the solution , that disseapears into the deep pockets of NGO,s sitting in fancy offices & travel in style & pay themselves grand salaries , NGO,s are mainly made up of people that would not be suitable to have a regular job in the west, but can lord it over others. How can you possible influence the african male in s.africa when nelson mandela himself, in 1990, being asked his opinion of the de klerk govt. anti aids campaign responded that aids was a gay white problem, where men had sex with men & thus spread aids, his words, nothing to do with us, the black community, boy how wrong he is, he has never retracted this statement, and today is supposed patron of various ngo organisations, how hypocritical Let the donors rather educate the masses in africa how to keep their pants zipped up & hei presto, problem solved The ngo,s could also start by telling the whole truth about the anount of babies, some as young as 9 months, raped by numerous aid sufferers in the belief that having sex with virgings will cure them Get rid of the no good ngo,s & get the african govt. to distribute the antiviral to their people, the are good at corruption, lies & stealing & tour their countyu when it comes to elections that surely they can also distribute the medicine It is in the interest of ngo,s to keep up the pressure & spread their lies otherwise they be out of their well influential, well rewarded cushy numbers