Research · 6 Jul 2020
WHO: access to HIV medicines severely impacted by COVID-19 as AIDS response stalls
Source: WHO
What the research found
Seventy-three countries have warned that they are at risk of stock-outs of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new WHO survey conducted ahead of the International AIDS Society’s biannual conference. Twenty-four countries reported having either a critically low stock of ARVs or disruptions in the supply of these life-saving medicines. The survey follows a modelling
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