Zimbabwe: Govt Must Prioritise Crucial Drugs Supply

14 March 2018
editorial

Zimbabwe's prevention of mother to child transmission programme is one of the best on the continent. News of the increasing shortage of a key preventative medicine, Nevirapine, is worrying and a loud cry for an urgent solution to drug stock-outs, procurement bottlenecks, foreign currency scarcity, among other issues.

Research has proved that infants who receive a single dose of the antiviral drug Nevirapine soon after birth and whose mothers take one dose of the same drug during labour are less likely to acquire HIV at birth or during breastfeeding.

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