HIV/AIDS

Reuters: Cash crunch hits Eswatini AIDS patients

An acute government funding crisis in Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, is disrupting supplies of HIV/AIDS drugs and hampering the fight against the virus in the country with the world's highest infection rate, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Friday.

Stocks of testing kits and related chemicals were "almost dry", making it next-to-impossible to chart the progress of the 70,000 patients on therapy or more than 130,000 other people carrying the virus, the aid agency said.

"We're running after the epidemic. We're not managing the epidemic," Aymeric Peguillan, MSF's country head, told Reuters in neighbouring South Africa... Read full article