Uganda: No More Septrin for Aids Patients - Government

3 September 2018

Kampala — People living with HIV/Aids in Uganda (PLWHA) will stop taking Septrin as a complementary drug that fights opportunistic infections such as malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia, according to the new Health ministry guidelines.

Dr Joshua Musinguzi, the head of the HIV/Aids programme at Ministry of Health, said the guidelines followed a recent research by scientists from both the ministry and the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) which came up with evidence that the drug is useless among people who are virally suppressed and stable on drugs.

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