Twice a Day, for Life
It was revealed at a meeting of eight majority Muslim nations on the use of HIV/AIDS antiretroviral medication that only half of all HIV sufferers in Indonesia have access to treatment. This is despite the fact that antiretroviral drugs are the only way for HIV-positive sufferers to stay alive.
June 24, 2008
ON the stroke of 9, the cellphone alarm shrieks with the sound of an alarm clock. Shanti Sardi hurries to grab her handbag. She takes out a small and pink palm-sized plastic box. From the box, the 28-year-old from Riau takes a white, cylindrical tablet, and a moment later the pellet is popped into her mouth.
The cellphone alarm reminds her again to swallow one of the small pills 12 hours later. This process will be repeated every day for the res
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