Monday 1 December 2014

Government Promises Constant Provision Of Anti-Retrovirals


           

The minister of Public Health Andre Mama Fouda has announced that government will not relent in providing free anti-retroviral drugs to sero-positive persons, even when the current stock of anti-retroviral drugs is exhausted. He was speaking today during activities to commemorate World AIDS day, today December 1. 


It should be recalled that there have been incidents where HIV patients in the past have decried the
unavailability of anti-retrovirals, when the drugs run out of stock.


He also re-echoed the need to shun practices which could be seen as stigmatisation. The national HIV prevalence rate is 4.3%.
This year's theme is "Zero new infections, Zero deaths".

4 comments:

Unknown said...

good to know,hope he keeps to his words

magisha said...

The team for this year "Zero new infections, Zero deaths". And the Gov't promising constant provision of anti-retrovirals will that be able bring down the infections to zero or the deaths to zero

AchuD said...

HIV...gives me the shivers still. Pray for those who have it, cos most of them didn't do anything worse than the rest of us. They were just unfortunate

Moi said...

...And for the unfortunate ones who do no receive positive support and love, May God continue to watch over them