: ‘This is hell,’ say HIV patients as government body stops supply of life-saving drug #IndiaNEWS Two decades after he started taking HIV medicines, in 2020, Nitin Solanki was put on a regime of

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‘This is hell,’ say HIV patients as government body stops supply of life-saving drug #IndiaNEWS
Two decades after he started taking HIV medicines, in 2020, Nitin Solanki was put on a regime of a new drug called Dolutegravir. He immediately felt it was “a good drug�. “My viral load reduced after I started taking it,� he said.Around India, thousands of patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, made a similar switch to Dolutegravir, described by some doctors as a “miracle drug�.But the patients now find themselves left in the lurch.In the past two months, Solanki, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, has been visiting the local antiretroviral centre in Thane, the city adjoining Mumbai where he lives, only to return empty handed. There is no stock of Dolutegravir.“Supply issues keep happening once every few years. It lasts for two or three months. But this time it’s been six months,� he said.Having lost his job as a machine maintenance technician in the pandemic-induced upheaval of 2020, Solanki lacks an income and cannot afford to buy Dolutegravir on his own. He is entirely dependent on free medicines disbursed at government-run centres, which typically get their supplies from the National AIDS Control Organisation.“I have started fighting with officials to get...Read more

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