Medical personnel in Adjumani District have resorted to a desperate Plan B to treat Hepatitis B after recommended drugs ran out of supply. They are now using Anti-Retrovirals (ARVs), which combinations are meant for HIV treatment.
Officials confirmed that ARVs can also be used to treat Hepatitis B disease. Adjumani Hospital acting Medical Superintendent, Dr Dominic Drametu, told Daily Monitor yesterday that they are using drugs such lamivudine and tenofovia for treating Hepatitis B.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article