Three ways South Africa can make HIV treatment simpler and better

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South Africa’s HIV programme is under profound pressure. The answer should not be to make people living with HIV work harder to stay on treatment, but to remove unnecessary visits and use scarce clinical capacity where it is needed most, argue Dr Anna Grimsrud and Lynne Wilkinson.

Three ways South Africa can make HIV treatment simpler and better

Switch to six-month ARV supplies running behind schedule

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus 1, Focus 2, Healthcare system, HIV, Latest, Spotlight

By March 2027, the health department aims to have 1.5 million people living with HIV on a new programme where they can get a six-month supply of antiretroviral medicines at a time. Early indications suggest that implementation of the programme is slow and uneven, reports Christina Pitt.