"We cannot have women carrying hospital beds on their heads," says Quinton Mageza of global charity ActionAid International, referring to the growing army of women and girls playing the role of nurse at home for relatives living with HIV/AIDS. Women and girls in southern African are overwhelmed by the burden of looking after these people, Mageza told IPS in South Africa’s commercial hub, Johannesburg. These women and girls have no medical training.
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