Lockdown deters HIV patients from picking up their medication
New research on the effect of the lockdown on decentralised antiretroviral (ARV) therapy programmes‚ which was presented at the 23rd International Aids Conference on Wednesday‚ has revealed that mistrust of the government and health sector’s management of Covid-19 has driven many HIV patients underground.
Lead researcher Jana Jarolimova‚ an infectious disease clinical and research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in the US‚ said among the 300 participants involved in the study‚ who received their treatment at pharmacies and community facilities as opposed to clinics‚ “the most commonly identified concerns regarding the pandemic were being infected with Covid-19‚ unable to work‚ and money running out”...
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