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Testing without treatment – Guinea-Bissau's dilemma
Saico Djau is deeply frustrated. He is a laboratory technician and HIV counsellor at the Marcelino Banca hospital on Bubaque Island, the second largest in Guinea Bissau's Bijagos Archipelago.
After testing people he informs them of their status but for those found to be HIV-positive there is little more he can do.
Antiretroviral treatment is not available on any of the Bijagos islands. He can only give people the news and send them back to their villages, scattered on 80 islands, where some 35,000 people live.
