December 17, 2010

India to Provide Everyone Free Second-Line HIV Meds

India will provide second-line HIV medications for free to people who started their first-line treatment in private hospitals, Sify reports. This decision by the National AIDS Control Organization, the government agency that oversees India’s HIV/AIDS programs, is a reversal of its earlier position to only provide free second-line treatment to people who had started first-line treatment in government-funded public hospitals.

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