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Don’t neglect HIV patients in Covid fight

The World Health Organisation has warned that 73 countries are running low on antiretroviral medicines (ARVs), and attributed the shortages to Covid-19 disruptions.

Indeed, disruptions wrought by the coronavirus pandemic are gargantuan, but do not provide a basis for abandoning other equally important projects, like providing antiretroviral drugs to HIV patients.

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