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Home > Uganda: HIV patients die as ARVs expire

Contributor [1]
Monday, September 18, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
270 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Life-prolonging anti-retro-viral trimune drugs worth $700,000 have expired in Uganda's National Medical Stores while thousands of people living with HIV/Aids struggle to stay alive. Trimune is a first-line regimen drug favoured by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for use in many developing countries.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/37146 [5]
Country: 
Uganda [6]

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