New medicines should make life easier for kids living with HIV

Posted in: Child health, Edition 6: HIV & teens, Edition 9: State of HIV, HIV/AIDS, Latest

HIV medicines for children often taste bitter, pills are large, and for many children there is a lot of medication to take. This makes it hard to take treatment as prescribed. Tiyese Jeranji looks at the challenges with currently available HIV medicines for children, what innovations are in the pipeline, and how HIV treatment is being tailored to suit the needs of children.

New medicines should make life easier for kids living with HIV

In the beginning there was the TAC

Posted in: Edition 14: Tuberculosis

When the Khayelitsha branch of the Treatment Action Campaigned opened its doors in the early ‘90s there was no way of knowing what an integral role it’s members would play in fight for ARV access.