im black n gay with AIDS...

[Moonglow]

If that is true you would be on SSDI. Fail, try again.

 

[Moonglow]

sorry, try it on yourself.

 

[waltky]

Be glad ya don't live in Africa where they're facing anti-AIDS drug shortages...

Uganda Health Clinics Face AIDS Drug Shortages
August 16, 2013 — Ugandan health workers are facing a dilemma. In June, the World Health Organization recommended giving HIV positive patients anti-retroviral treatment (ARVs) earlier to reduce the risk of spreading the disease. But for the past few months, many doctors have been struggling to provide the life-saving treatment to anyone at all.

Clinics outside the capital have been complaining of drug shortages, especially of HIV test kits and ARVs. John Barasa, who heads an ARV clinic in Busia in eastern Uganda, says the government is not been delivering all of the drugs his facility orders. Of the 100 packs of ARVs the clinic requested in June, he says, only six were delivered. To make up for the shortages, Barasa has been stretching his supplies by giving patients only one or two weeks’ worth of drugs at a time. "Some, who have to travel for hours to reach the clinic, have been running out of medicine," he says.

Elvis Basudde, head of the Positive Men’s Union, says he has been receiving complaints of drug shortages from clinics across the country. For HIV-positive Ugandans, he says, lack of access to ARVs could be disastrous. "With us, there must be strict adherence to treatment," Basudde said. "So whenever we have such problems and issues, and somebody cannot be able to access medicine in good time, you can imagine the consequences. It could lead to drug resistance." Yet Ugandan health advocates such as Margaret Happy, who works with the National Forum of People Living with HIV, say that there is no shortage of drugs in the country. "At facility level, it is very severe," she said. "However, at national level the situation seems to be very different."

Ugandan HIV/AIDS patients listen as a Mbuya Community Outreach doctor explains how to start anti-retroviral treatment, near Kampala

According to the Ministry of Health, Uganda has plenty of ARVs, enough to last until December. Ministry spokesperson Rukia Nakamatte says the problem lies with the clinics themselves, and with health workers who do not know how to use the government’s new Internet-based system for ordering medicine. "The current shortage that we are experiencing in some facilities is due to increased orders that are being placed wrongly," Nakamatte said. "We have problems with some data entrants and bio-statisticians who are not able to enter the right data."

But in the clinics visited by Happy, this hasn't been the case. "National level transfers blame to the local level. Yet the local level [has] evidence that clearly shows that they make the right quantification, and they make it timely," she said. "The problem is with delivery." Happy says the new web-based order form is not always functional, and some of her fellow advocates also blame a new national supply system that prevents facilities from boosting each other’s supplies. Both systems would be good ones if they worked, Happy said, adding that unless Uganda’s ARVs can make it out of the warehouses and into the clinics, they will not be saving anyone.

Uganda Health Clinics Face AIDS Drug Shortages

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Zambia Faces Shortage of Anti-AIDS Drugs
August 17, 2013 — The Zambian government is putting in place stringent measures aimed at ensuring a sufficient supply of anti-retroviral drugs. The drugs are essential for those infected with HIV/AIDS, but the medicine currently is in short supply. AIDS patients have had to travel more than 30 kilometers from their homes - often on foot - to reach clinics, where all too often they are told that the medicine has run out.

This is the second time this year that the more than 500,000 people living with HIV in Zambia have had to cope with what the Ministry of Health calls rationing of the drugs - a system that some patients here have been contending with for more than a decade. It is a bitter pill to swallow, especially because obtaining medicine is not as easy as one would think. A check at some clinics in Lusaka shows that patients must turn up at 4 a.m. to queue services they will only receive hours later. Zambia’s Ministry of Health admits there is a challenge regarding the stocks of ARVs in the country, which it refers to not as a shortage, but as "rationing."

Chikuta Mbewe is the deputy director of pharmaceutical services. He said part of the problem was an ongoing switch in Zambia and other countries from one drug, Truvada, to another, Atripla. Mbewe said complications with the switch have driven down the stocks of both drugs. "I must hasten to say that there are a lot of planned shipments that have already started arriving in the country. We think now we are in the normalization curve, so to say. We hope we can get back to our normal levels,” he said. Mbewe said the Zambia government wanted as many people as possible to be on [taking] Atripla, since an eight-month supply of the drug was expected to arrive in Zambia before the end of October. Mbewe said the government’s strategy was to get 95 percent of people living with HIV using Atripla, to simplify the supply chain.

An HIV-AIDS patient (R) places her hand on her forehead during a visit by a caregiver at her home in Matero township on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia

But Felix Mwanza, national director of the Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign, believed the ARV situation in Zambia could have been avoided with proper planning. “To us, when they say the situation will improve by October, I think justifies what we have been saying," said Mwanza. "I think there is more than what the naked eye actually sees. Because if the government were saying initially that it will take two weeks for the situation to improve, and they and they move on to say that it will improve in one month's time - and this time they are talking about October - then who is telling the truth? So people should actually be asking questions, [such as] 'Is there something amiss?'"

Whatever the cause, the shortage is real. Ackim Sakala, a primary school teacher who has been living with HIV for 12 years, is not happy that he has to go to the clinic every month to collect his ARVs, though he acknowledged the situation could be worse. His clinic is only a kilometer away. “I can imagine for those that walk long distances, I know what they are passing through. From the experience that I have had some people have been rationed to two weeks and you can imagine every two weeks they have to get to the clinic to collect their drugs. For sure there is a shortage," he said.

One of the long-term interventions that Zambia’s Ministry of Health wants to achieve is to attract investors to set up a pharmaceutical plant that will not only manufacture ARVs in the country but other essential drugs as well. In the meantime, all the people living with HIV have to face the grim reality of what the authorities are referring to as rationing, when the people that use the drugs call it a shortage.

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[THORAX]

Stop sending aid to africa. Let africa die.

It's more inhumane to keep a dieing corpse alive than letting the corpse just die and end its misery.

 

[aaronleland]

Stop sending aid to africa. Let africa die.

It's more inhumane to keep a dieing corpse alive than letting the corpse just die and end its misery.

I bet you consider yourself a Christian. You sickening fuck.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Black and gay and asian???? With AIDS???

WTF???


That's impossible Moonglow!!! I won't believe it!!!

 

[Noomi]

Stop sending aid to africa. Let africa die.

It's more inhumane to keep a dieing corpse alive than letting the corpse just die and end its misery.

I bet you consider yourself a Christian. You sickening fuck.

A lot of so called Christians don't care about anyone else but themselves.

 

[Rocko]

 

[THORAX]

Stop sending aid to africa. Let africa die.

It's more inhumane to keep a dieing corpse alive than letting the corpse just die and end its misery.

I bet you consider yourself a Christian. You sickening fuck.

110% Atheist.

I bet you support aid to africa don't you?

Feeding a starving african so they can turn around and starve some more is more inhumane than letting that african die. You twisted degenerate.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Some asian dude's got AIDS and he happens to be black. That's what this thread is about. I think.

 

[Noomi]

Stop sending aid to africa. Let africa die.

It's more inhumane to keep a dieing corpse alive than letting the corpse just die and end its misery.

I bet you consider yourself a Christian. You sickening fuck.

110% Atheist.

I bet you support aid to africa don't you?

Feeding a starving african so they can turn around and starve some more is more inhumane than letting that african die. You twisted degenerate.

So you would prefer to wipe out millions of people just because they are poor?
Sick freak you are.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I bet you consider yourself a Christian. You sickening fuck.

110% Atheist.

I bet you support aid to africa don't you?

Feeding a starving african so they can turn around and starve some more is more inhumane than letting that african die. You twisted degenerate.

So you would prefer to wipe out millions of people just because they are poor?
Sick freak you are.

He's nuts. Ignore him.

 

[THORAX]

Sigh.

This forum sucks. There's too many idiots here.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Sigh.

This forum sucks. There's too many idiots here.

stormfront.org

 

[Snouter]

Noomi, I am guessing the plight of African Africans has less to do with being poor financially and more with being irresponsible, uncivilized, superstitious and unwilling to practice safe sex.

 

[The T]

If that is true you would be on SSDI. Fail, try again.

And TAXPAYERS ON HOOK? That about it twerp?

DO YOU have some point, and WHY does Government have to pay for it?

 

[The T]

this^^^

 

[FireFly]

Black Gay Teen Prostitute Robert Rayford was the first known aids case in the USA in early 1968 St. Louis, MO. Thank him & his sex partners for the US aids epidemic.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Black Gay Teen Prostitute Robert Rayford was the first known aids case in the USA in early 1968 St. Louis, MO. Thank him & his sex partners for the US aids epidemic.

He was only 16 when he died. Very sad. And not a prostitute. Nice job trying to judge him though I guess.

Thank goodness we're on the verge of curing AIDS for good

Brazilian Scientists Test New AIDS Vaccine, Hoping 'HIVBr18' Ends Global Pandemic