Health
Millions of people are on treatment for HIV: why are so many still dying? – The Conversation Africa
One of the main challenges remains that diagnostics and drugs for people suffering from advanced HIV aren’t readily available. This group of people is vulnerable…
Twenty years ago treatment for HIV was a rare luxury in South Africa. Exorbitant costs and President Thabo Mbekis governments fierce opposition to providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) kept it out of the public sector.
They were terrible days. Many lives were lost.
The environment has changed remarkably since then. The turning point came in 2004 when, after four years of struggle, led by the Treatment Action Campaign, the government begrudgingly agreed to start providing ART.
Antiretroviral…
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