Drug-Sharing To Save Lives
The supply of HIV/AIDS antiretrovirals has continued to dwindle since the beginning of the year. Those with HIV/AIDS are vulnerable to other diseases as they have been forced to take substitute drugs.
Raymundus Rikang
April 21, 2020
YOHANA—not her real name—who has been taking antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for one year, has been at a loss since early April. On her three visits to the R.D. Kandou General Hospital in Manado, North Sulawesi, until mid-April, she always received news that there was still no supply of fixed-dose combination ARVs—a combination of tenofovir, lamivudine, and efavirenz. Before, she would always easily obtain the human immunodeficiency
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