1. Who do the different board members propose to treat with anti-retroviral therapy and what rationale do they provide? Do you agree or disagree? Why? Would you suggest treating any other groups?
2. How are HIV treatment and prevention related? Can programs that focus solely on preventing the transmission of HIV successfully halt the spread of AIDS? Why or why not?
3. In their presentations the board members identify several factors that complicate prevention and treatment, what are they?
Using the information provided in the Online NewsHour reports on Botswana
and Malawi
compare and contrast the factors that would complicate or facilitate AIDS
treatment and prevention efforts if Nurses and Doctors for World Health operated
clinics in those nations.
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