Nigerian activists move to stop supply of sub-standard HIV/AIDS drugs

3 January 2014

Treatment Action Movement (TAM), a coalition of HIV treatment activists in Nigeria, in collaboration with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF-Nigeria) has instituted a campaign to eliminate the supply of sub-standard antiretrovirals (ARVs) at treatment centers in Nigeria, reports the AllAfrica news service.

The group, while appreciating actions by the federal government to increase access to HIV treatment, stated that there seemed to be clear failure to protect citizens living with HIV/AIDS.

TAM alleged that local drugmaker Tyonex Nigeria, for example, supplies the AZT/3TC/NVP and the TDF/3TC combinations of ARVs with funding from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) funds through the Federal Ministry of Health, noting however that distributing a product meant to save and prolong lives could easily be bogged by an integrity deficit in basic physical requirements.

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