{"id":15542,"date":"2020-10-07T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=15542"},"modified":"2020-10-07T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:16:14","slug":"alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock","title":{"rendered":"Alarm as 10 HIV drugs out of stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authors: ANYANGO OTIENO AND GRAHAM KAJILWA\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> There is a shortage of 10 crucial HIV\/Aids drugs as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, the UN has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a latest report by UNAids, at least 10\u00a0anti-retroviral therapy\u00a0(ART) medication is in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>They include Tenofovir, Abacavuir, Cotrimoxazole suspension, Ritonavir tablets, Nevirapine suspension (for new born), Zidovudine solution, Zidovudine\/lamivudine (AZT\/3TC), Lopinavir\/ Ritonavir(LPV\/r) 100\/25 mg, and LPV\/r pellets 40\/10 formulation.<\/p>\n<p>A model by the World Health Organisation and the Joint United Nations Programmes on\u00a0HIV and Aids\u00a0(UNAids) estimated a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could lead to more than 500 000 additional Aids-related deaths, including from tuberculosis, in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020\u20132021.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya, persons living with\u00a0HIV\u00a0have already confirmed a short supply of Cotrimoxazole, which is sold as Septrin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: ANYANGO OTIENO AND GRAHAM KAJILWA\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: There is a shortage of 10 crucial HIV\/Aids drugs as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, the UN has warned. 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They include Tenofovir, Abacavuir, Cotrimoxazole suspension, Ritonavir tablets, Nevirapine suspension (for new born), Zidovudine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[2763,5966,5967],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-hiv-and-aids","tag-unaids"],"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>Alarm as 10 HIV drugs out of stock - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is a shortage of 10 crucial HIV\/Aids drugs as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, the UN has warned.In a latest report by UNAids,\" \/>\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\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alarm as 10 HIV drugs out of stock\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is a shortage of 10 crucial HIV\/Aids drugs as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, the UN has warned.In a latest report by UNAids,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-07T18:16:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/alarm_as_10_hiv_drug5f7d69321e371.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"468\" \/>\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\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Alarm as 10 HIV drugs out of stock\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-07T18:16:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/alarm_as_10_hiv_drug5f7d69321e371.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Covid-19 pandemic\",\"HIV and Aids\",\"UNAids\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/miscellaneous\/alarm-as-10-hiv-drugs-out-of-stock\",\"name\":\"Alarm as 10 HIV drugs out of stock - 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