Africa: Medicines without doctors

Recent internal comments from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ("the Global Fund") suggest an intention to focus more on the three diseases, and to leave the strengthening of health systems and support for the health workforce to others. This could create a "Medicines without Doctors" situation in which the medicines to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are available, but not the doctors or the nurses to prescribe those medicines adequately.