South Africa: Why Steal HIV/Aids Drugs?

Civil society organisations want to see government taking a firmer stand to stop anti-retroviral drugs from being smuggled into the black market, reports Health-e.

Many HIV-positive people are afraid to fetch their treatment...

...from public health facilities for fear of being...

...victims of people stealing their medicine.

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