Lockdown deters HIV patients from picking up their medication

A hospital worker puts on gloves as part of her Personal Protective Equipment in the COVID-19 ward at the Somerset Hospital in Cape Town, on July 2 2020. Picture: AFP/RODGER BOSCH

Lead researcher Jana Jarolimova‚ an infectious disease clinical and research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in the US‚ said among the 300 participants involved in the study‚ who received their treatment at pharmacies and community facilities as opposed to clinics‚ “the most commonly identified concerns regarding the pandemic were being infected with Covid-19‚ unable to work‚ and money running out”.

Among those who feared infection‚ more than two-thirds or 68% of HIV patients anticipated barriers to the ARV therapy programmes in the future. The Gauteng health department is one of the government departments that has spoken openly about the effect of the lockdown on its ARV therapy programme. In May the number of patients who failed to collect their TB medicines in that province was 1‚090‚ while the number of patients who failed to collect their ARV medicines was about 10‚950.

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