Wednesday, January 07, 2015

South Africa the lowest spender on HIV/Aids

Mbasa Gqokoma
07 January 2015

The National Department of Health is rated the lowest spender on its HIV/AIDS drug treatment in the world.

This follows after a successful drug tender was awarded to Aspen Pharmacare.

The tender is set to roll out for the next three years and government has promised to make the drug treatment available in all health care facilities across the country.

Ministerial Spokesperson Joe Maila says “our tender is one of the cheapest in the world, we have one of the biggest ARV treatments in South Africa, and we used our power and the economy of skill to make sure we drop the price of ARV, so that we must be able to provide a treatment to many people in the country.”

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