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Shortage of HIV drugs looms in Uganda again

Activists have raised the red flag of a looming shortage of HIV drugs in Uganda when stocks run out in September 2015. PHOTO | FILE

Uganda is facing yet another shortage of lifesaving HIV drugs, health activists warned last week.

The shortage has been attributed to the failure by authorities to import enough stock of antiretroviral therapy (ART) medicines last year.

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