Apr 03, 2003
A government programme to provide anti-AIDS drugs to HIV-positive Zambians had ignored those who needed it most and was simply "a lot of hot air", activists told IRIN. Last year, the government announced that up to 10,000 people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) would receive free antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in nine provincial treatment centres. The project would also provide a team consisting of a physician, faith healer, counsellor and social worker in each centre. But the Network of Zambian People Living With HIV/AIDS (NZP+) has expressed concern that PWAs who are poor and powerless, still have no access to treatment.
































