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About Us Who are Mobilemedics? Mobilemedics is a new charitable group established in 2002 by four junior doctors currently working within the NHS. It was set up in response to their personal experiences of the enormous needs they saw being faced by rural communities whilst travelling throughout sub-Saharan Africa as students. Mirroring the desires of generations of young British men and women they decided to see what this group of four friends with the benefit of UK education and support could achieve against the seemingly insurmountable problems faced by rural communities throughout Africa. What are these problems? The recent highly publicised World Aids Day once again drew our attention to the relentless progress of the global epidemic that is HIV/Aids. The figures make for terrifying reading, affecting Africa on a greater scale than any other continent. Approximately 70% of all infected people live in Africa and sadly 80% of all children affected are African. Last year alone 2.2 million Africans died as a result of AIDS, a number equivalent to the population of Wales. It is not only the African continent that is affected, contrary to popular belief in the UK we are facing a growing problem at home with the new infection rate soaring last year, it is thought that this is in part due to the growing multicultural make up within the UK. The
Global Scale of the problems needs to be tackled by approaching
the communities most compromised. Combining the research by the
medical community, local healthcare knowledge and experience of
other charities and NGO's we have come up with several
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