Welcome to the Marquette University College of Nursing
AIDS in Africa Project Web site!
The AIDS in Africa Project was born of the reality that nurses are key
to helping African people live with AIDS. Nurses and non-physician
health providers are the 
mainstay
of healthcare delivery systems in Africa. At present, nurses provide
over sixty-seven
percent of all front line care-giving to Persons with HIV and
AIDS throughout the world.
Historically, nurses have been a minimally supported and underutilized
resource for the development of health care systems and the infrastructure
that sustains them. Today in Kenya, nurses are seen as prevention educators.
They also provide both care and treatment to persons living with HIV/AIDS.
In addition, nurses are training informal care givers such as community
health workers and traditional
birth attendants to extend nursing care, particularly in the community.
In Kenya, there are over 30,000 registered nurses and nurse midwives
who work in hospitals, dispensaries, antenatal clinics and community-based
health care programmes. However, each year graduate nurses exit nursing
schools having received minimal preparation to care for persons living
with HIV/AIDS. They then find they are overwhelmed with hospitals and
communities that are filled with AIDS patients.
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