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Global Fund rushes HIV drugs to Uganda amid shortage

Kampala: The Global Fund, a partnership that sends HIV drugs to poor countries, says it plans to send a 12-month advance supply of antiretroviral therapy to Uganda, after the East African country ran out three months before the end of last year.

Health activists say about 240,000 patients on publicly funded treatment programmes were affected by the shortage, which began last September, forcing them to modify their treatments or stop altogether. Private-sector clinics were not impacted.

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