AIDS medication works … but only if taken properly

Another side of the HIV equation, that of treatment for those infected also has its downside. It seems that while antiretroviral medication is available, it is not necessarily being used properly.

Dr. Pedro Arriaga, Internist K.H.M.H.
“We try to be as realistic as possible, we were not expecting hundred percent improvement. Some of the patients they still with this kind of condition, because it is a serious disease, will die even if we try to use medications. But you see patients coming to the hospital getting the medication, they stop taking the medication even though the medication is free of cost, even the blood test is free of cost, they stop taking medication and when they come and see the doctor, they are in a different type of condition. You feel so good when a patient is getting better, taking medications but you start feeling so frustrated when the patient that was doing so well, stop taking medication and starts going back to the bad conditions they had before.”

The government’s treatment programme dates back to 2003.