Free ARV�s For Foreign Inmates

He said government’s refusal to offer foreign inmates the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) treatment was irrational adding that it also posed a danger to citizen inmates. “The refusal to provide HAART to the inmates is a breach of the duty owed to them by the government, to be provided with basic health care services and that the withholding of treatment will enable their HIV to replicate and relegate to terminal stage,” he said.

He explained that it was not reasonably justified that the provision of life saving medication like HAART be withheld. He pointed out that the ultimate result was that the groups of people deprived of treatment become more infectious to others or died; creating a Catch 22 situation that could have been long avoided.