Municipal health officials in Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, are struggling to cope with growing waiting lists of people in need of hiv treatment and too few doctors to prescribe the drugs, informs AlJazeera.net Sunday.
More than 320.000 Zimbabweans are in need of anti-retroviral (ARV) drug treatment and of the 1,7 million living with hiv, only about 150.000 are receiving medication from the public health sector.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports on Zimbabwean migrant workers who cannot access ARVs in South Africa and are forced to return to Bulawayo clinics for treatment.
A drop in levels of funding and interruption in the supply of ARV drugs have led to the delay, suspension, or risk of suspension of the supply of life-saving hiv drugs.
This disruption, says Medicin Sans Frontieres (MSF), is putting hiv patients at risk in at least six African countries.
