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People living with HIV applaud the CAGs strategy

Byron Adonis Mutingwende5 years ago06 mins

People who are living with HIV have praised the Community ART Groups strategy which aims to overcome patient barriers to accessing treatment and to decrease healthcare workers’ workload by encouraging members of the same community to take turns to collect refills for all group members from the health facility. Speaking to Spiked Online Media, patients…

Providing new models of HIV service delivery in Mwenezi

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago03 mins

In Mwenezi, people living with HIV used to travel as far as 60 kilometres to get to the nearest clinics to collect life saving anti-retroviral treatment. In extreme cases, patients were forced to walk for two days to reach clinics in neighbouring districts to collect medication. Health facilities are very scarce in Mwenezi, with only…