Omaswa advises on new AIDS drugs
May 03, 2005
FOLLOWING the recent allocation of free antiretroviral drugs for 12,000 HIV/AIDS patients in 104 accredited health centres, the health ministry has warned that not all HIV positive persons need treatment with ARVs.
By Patrick Opio
FOLLOWING the recent allocation of free antiretroviral drugs for 12,000 HIV/AIDS patients in 104 accredited health centres, the health ministry has warned that not all HIV positive persons need treatment with ARVs.
Omaswa said the decision as to who is put on treatment was a clinical decision. He said the management of ARVs was a responsibility of specially trained doctors.
A notice issued by Prof. Francis Omaswa, the director general of health services said, the drugs would be accessed through the normal health services system.
The notice said though the drugs would be free of charge, those who accessed them through private wings of government hospitals and non governmental hospitals and private sector will pay for the usual consultation fees.
The Ministry of Health and Uganda Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Malaria and TB bought the drugs.
FOLLOWING the recent allocation of free antiretroviral drugs for 12,000 HIV/AIDS patients in 104 accredited health centres, the health ministry has warned that not all HIV positive persons need treatment with ARVs.
Omaswa said the decision as to who is put on treatment was a clinical decision. He said the management of ARVs was a responsibility of specially trained doctors.
A notice issued by Prof. Francis Omaswa, the director general of health services said, the drugs would be accessed through the normal health services system.
The notice said though the drugs would be free of charge, those who accessed them through private wings of government hospitals and non governmental hospitals and private sector will pay for the usual consultation fees.
The Ministry of Health and Uganda Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Malaria and TB bought the drugs.