{"id":20361,"date":"2023-01-21T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T10:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs"},"modified":"2023-01-21T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T13:01:44","slug":"nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs","title":{"rendered":"NURSES UNION WARNS:Deaths looming as eSwatini faces shortage of ARVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Mayibongwe Masangane, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union(SWADNU) has warned that more emaSwati will die due to the shortage of Antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs in hospitals. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to press on Thursday,the SWADNU Secretary General blamed Government for focusing too much on the Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreEP) programme while neglecting those who were already infected with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAlready patients are given alternatives which are closely related to their regimen and the stock is getting depleted at a high rate. Some people might stop taking these alternatives as their bodies react to them thus increasing the death rate of HIV patients,\u201dhe said<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comments, Dr Simon Zwane, the Principal Secretary(PS) in the Ministry of Health said the allegations of ARVs shortage were not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is different preparation and packaging, doctors then rearrange accordingly,\u201dsaid the Health PS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Mayibongwe Masangane, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union(SWADNU) has warned that more emaSwati will die due to the shortage of Antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs in hospitals. Speaking to press on Thursday,the SWADNU Secretary General blamed Government for focusing too much on the Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreEP) programme while neglecting those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-20361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NURSES UNION WARNS:Deaths looming as eSwatini faces shortage of ARVs - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mayibongwe Masangane, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union(SWADNU) has warned that more ema ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NURSES UNION WARNS:Deaths looming as eSwatini faces shortage of ARVs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mayibongwe Masangane, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union(SWADNU) has warned that more ema ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-21T10:41:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-21T13:01:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674285178.14.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"925\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NURSES UNION WARNS:Deaths looming as eSwatini faces shortage of ARVs\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-21T10:41:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-21T13:01:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674285178.14.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/nurses-union-warnsdeaths-looming-as-eswatini-faces-shortage-of-arvs\",\"name\":\"NURSES UNION WARNS:Deaths looming as eSwatini faces shortage of ARVs - 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