The Times: ARV lifeline:one pill beats three

10 October 2012
antiretrovirals, HIV

 

Nearly 2million South Africans on antiretrovirals have been thrown a lifeline with the cancellation of a contract that prevented the distribution of the one of world's cheapest three-in-one antiretroviral pill...Activists are hoping that, from next year, people receiving ARV medication from the government will have to take only one pill a day...According to Médecins Sans Frontièrs, the three-pill combination costs the government R113 a month per patient...

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