SWAZILAND: Treatment programme woes

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, September 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Shortages of antiretroviral (ARV) and other drugs in public health facilities in Swaziland have been among a long list of grievances cited by protesters during several weeks of unprecedented political unrest ahead of parliamentary polls on Friday. Health department officials have admitted that supplies of some ARV drugs ran low in July and August, but insist that the problem has been resolved. "I can appreciate that people on treatment get very...