ARV prices go down

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Recently, President Ian Khama said at the International AIDS commemoration day in Palapye that free provision of ARV treatment by the government is not only costly but unsustainable.

The 2009-2010 HIV/AIDS budget cost the government P1.3 billion, with the treatment taking the larger share of the cost. However, the good news is that the cost of HIV drugs have drastically gone down even in pharmacies.

"The prices (of drugs) were way above P500 per month in the past five years but now they are way below that," Liberty Zibako, a pharmacist at Botschem Pharmacy in Gaborone said yesterday.

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