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No ARV shortage, assures health ministry

Nevirapine. It is given to babies of mothers living with the virus for the first six months while they are breastfeeding.

The Ministry of Health has allayed fears that the country is running short of crucial drugs given to infants to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki said that more drugs are expected in the country next month.

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