Despite being six months behind schedule, the department says it can provide treatment to 6.1-million people with HIV by December 2020
The health department is confident it can reach its target of providing treatment to 6.1-million people with HIV by December 2020, despite being significantly behind schedule, a senior official said on Wednesday.
At the end of September, 4.8-million people with HIV were on treatment, a target the government had aimed to reach six months earlier, said the department’s deputy director-general for communicable and non-communicable diseases, Yogan Pillay. The uptake has been particularly slow among children and men, among whom the coverage was 60% and 62%, respectively, compared to 72% among women, according to National Treasury documents released during the medium-term budget policy statement in October.
He spoke to Business Day shortly before Wednesday’s official launch of the government’s new HIV treatment programme, which is based on a generic three-in-one pill called TLD that contains tenofovir, lamivudine and dolutegravir.
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