At health facilities across Uganda, lifesaving HIV treatment is starting to disappear.
A pharmacist at Kiboga Hospital in central Uganda said the facility ran out of the preferred medicine for children with HIV last Thursday. Instead, pharmacists are breaking adult formulations of the same drug down to a size they hope children will be able to tolerate.
In Kamuli, approximately 148 miles northeast of Kiboga, a remote health center treating 360 people with HIV is completely out of three different adult antiretroviral drugs, and also a primary form of treatment for children. Some of those medicines have been out of stock for more than a month and a half, a health worker told Devex.