Africa Medical Association (AFMA) admitted at the weekend in Abuja that it has failed in the prevention and control of the dreaded HIV/AIDS disease.
It, however, said that behavioural change on the part of men folk remains the best antidote to reduce the scourge of the disease which ravages the continent in geometric proportion.
President of AFMA, Kgosi Letlape, who spoke with newsmen at the end of the Second Council Session of the African Medical Association, said members are determined to intervene and partner with governments on issues that affect health generally in the continent.
Letlape, who spoke on the theme of the session, "Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa", regretted that except for a few countries, the African continent may not meet the MDGs in the health sector.
The implications of all these, according to him, "would be that pregnant women will continue to die from childbirth complications, and that African children will continue to be lost, diseases like HIV, malaria will continue to ravage our people and access to good water, safe environment and education will remain a mirage".
He said the situation on the ground portents glooming pictures that need a serious and concerted effort in the continent to forestall the calamities.
AFMA, he said, is determined to collaborate with African governments to formulate health policies that would address the problems on the continent.
Earlier, President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Daniel Gana, had said that already there is a bill on National Health Policy before the National Assembly awaiting the concurrence of the Assembly for it to be passed.
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