Condition Critical
Supplies of antiretroviral medicines are scarce. The lives of HIV and AIDS patients are at risk: some have taken expired medicines, others have even stopped taking them altogether.
December 2, 2008
ONE morning in early November, Anton Sugiri took Neviral and Deviral. The medicines are two antiretroviral (ARV) medicines that should be consumed together to fight the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Anton has routinely taking those medicines since 2005, after he was diagnosed infected with HIV. But unlike previously, after taking the medicine that morning, this ex-drug user who now works at the Health Info news kiosk at Atma Jaya Catholic U
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