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The growing crisis in many of South Africa’s clinics has reached a point where patient care is being compromised and there is a deepening worry that people living with HIV are being pushed out of treatment, argues Anele Yawa and Lotti Rutter. In this op-ed, they ask whether repeat prescription collection strategies are simpler and quicker than waiting in long clinic queues.
Anele Yawa is the General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Lotti Rutter is with Health GAP. Both work on the Ritshidze project.
The growing crisis in many of South Africa’s clinics has reached a point where patient care is being compromised. There is a deepening worry that people living with HIV are being pushed out of treatment.
Allowing people living with HIV to collect their medication refills outside of the clinic can improve this experience and reduce the risk of people disengaging from care. Decentralising medication refills together with longer ARV refills can reduce how often people living with HIV actually have to go to the clinic reducing time spent in long queues, interacting with rude staff, or having their status involuntarily disclosed, as often reported through community-led monitoring, of the kind we do as part of the Ritshidze project.
Clinics in containers may be used to bring vaccines to rural South Africans Jan 28, 2021, 10:57 AM
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Nursing unit (Image supplied by Cipla/Sha p Left)
Clinics and chronic medication pick-up points housed in containers have helped ease the strain on public resources during the fight against Covid-19.
Approximately 70 of these fully equipped units are currently deployed across South Africa as part of the Cipla Foundation’s Sha’p Left project.
Now, the pharmaceutical giant says it has been approached by government to assist with the vaccine rollout.
But practical details are scarce and willing participants in the private sector are anxiously awaiting official regulations from government.