South Africa desperately in need of ARVs says AIDS activist ahead the World AIDS Day

Millions at risk due to supply challenges caused by COVID-19 .(File photo)

The Treatment Action Campaign’s Nonkosi Khumalo says the proposed 18-month delay before government begins to provide free anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) in the public health sector is outrageous and too long.   Nonkosi added that thousands of people were dying and that in South Africa alone about 5 million people were already infected and desperately in need of ARVs. Thandeka Teyise spoke to Nonkosi about the government’s propsed ARV programme.

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