Malta HIV patients forced to crowdsource medicine

Malta HIV patients forced to crowdsource medicine
dw.com
12/16/2020
Jon Shelton
The EU nation has said a delayed British shipment is causing the bottleneck. Rights groups retort that the government's laissez-faire approach is to blame.
© picture-alliance/dpa/J. Kalaene
The government has said people will get the medicine they need, NGOs aren't so sure
HIV patients in Malta have been forced to crowdsource crucial medicine due to a lack of supplies, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) collecting pills from those who have stockpiled them in order to redistribute them to people who have run out.
"Some people living with HIV are reduced to basically scavenge their own medication," according to Checkpoint Malta, an HIV patient support group.

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