Picture courtesy: John Crawford (Wikimedia Commons) A key anti-retroviral therapy (ART) drug for HIV-positive people is unavailable in government hospitals in Bangalore. The so-called third-line ART drug, which is used to treat patients after they have been administered the first and second lines to suppress the virus, is not supplied to the city’s government hospitals. Chandrika, 33, an HIV-positive woman working with a Bangalore-based NGO that helps HIV-positive people, whose 16-year-old son also has the disease, told The SoftCopy she cannot afford to buy the drug for him from private hospitals. “My son is in need of the third line…
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