Congratulations to Minister Motsoaledi on new fixed dose HIV drug

April 19, 2013 | Filed underExpressions | Posted by

In most cases when a government at national, provincial or local level fails to deliver on its promises, there will be a large number of illegal and legal protests and messages that the government takes its people who voted for it for granted.

Well, as a community member I think it also equally crucial that even when government delivers on its mandate it should be applauded and be given a credit.

On Monday the national minister of health, launched the new fixed dose combination ARV. This means that HIV patients will now have to take one tablet instead of three separate pills per day.

In every state of the nation address and a budget speech presented before parliament, Health is always a priority and receives a large stake of a national allocation to ensure that amongst others that the people of South Africa access free medical service and combat a deadly virus called HIV and AIDS.

Treatment of HIV/AIDS has always been problematic in the country or across the globe because patients would forget sometime to take the pills as instructed by the doctors and sometimes the patients would complain that side effects of the treatment were not good.

Taking one pill per day is actually a tremendous movement for patients living with AIDS; this means to them that treatment will be as easy as swallowing one pill per day and that it will hopefully reduce non-compliance and non-adherence incidences.

Dr Motsoaledi, as minister, has assured the patients that this new drug will have fewer side effects and that there may be fewer diversities of the drug as it is a new one.

HIV/AIDS is worldwide virus, and if not treated well it can results to death. As a South African citizen I would to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr Motsoaledi and national department of health in particular for the launch of this new drug to try and make access for good health  easy , accessible and  that health should not be treated as luxury but a must have thing.

Tshidi Pholoana
Bloemfontein

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