Africa: Give Peacekeepers ARVs, New Study Urges

Johannesburg — As the African Union (AU) moves towards establishing a formal peacekeeping brigade, a new study has suggested the need for troops on missions to be supplied with anti-AIDS medication.

"Botswana and South Africa are the only two countries in Southern Africa which supply their troops on external operations with 'takeaways' of ARV [antiretroviral] prescriptions for 90 days," said Martin Rupiya, one of the authors of the study, 'The Enemy Within: Southern African Militaries' Quarter-century Battle with HIV and AIDS'.

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