With recent cuts to foreign aid, including programs like PEPFAR, thousands of Africans living with HIV face an uncertain future. Although the freeze was followed by an exemption for “life-saving ...
In a statement issued on 8 February, the ministry described reports suggesting patients are now being forced to purchase ARVs as baseless and misleading.
Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't kill it. But new research is promising.
USAID was a major funder of many health projects in Kenya, among them the provision of free ARVs for HIV/AIDS patients. Its imminent closure has had many worried.