Imphal:
The Manipur Network for Positive People (MNP+) has claimed that the acute shortage of antiretroviral drugs recommended controlling HIV/AIDS infections from progressing has put the lives of people living with the virus at risk.
However, the official department has refuted the charges of a shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARV) and claimed that there is adequate stock Nationally for around 95 per cent of ‘People Living with HIV’ (PLHIV) who are on first and second-line ARV regimens in the country.
“Individual antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres may have this issue at times, but the medicines are immediately relocated from nearby centres”, said a Health Ministry source.
Notably, about 14,000 people take antiretroviral drugs under ART Free Roll Out programme in Manipur.