Kampala — ANTI-Retro Viral drugs (ARVs) in Uganda are not having maximum health benefits because many patients test for HIV late and therefore start taking the drugs late, medical researchers have said.
"In an era when highly active anti retroviral therapy is not only free but also widely available, we found that 40% of patients in a large HIV clinic had late-stage HIV disease at their initial clinic visit," the researchers, who surveyed 2,311 patients at the Mbarara University Teaching Hospital, said.
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