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HIV/AIDS testing and drug prices reduced

    JOHANNESBURG

    Gabon has announced a further reduction in the price of anti-AIDS treatment and HIV testing following a Global AIDS Fund pledge of US $3 million to tackle the pandemic.

    Some 1,600 people currently receive government-subsidised antiretroviral therapy in Gabon, where an estimated 7.7 percent of the 1.2 million population are HIV-positive.

    "This benefits the jobless people like me, and makes us follow our treatments regularly. It also reduces the inequalities in treatment that used to exist in hospitals," an HIV-positive woman, who preferred not to be named, told the UN news service, PlusNews.

    Despite the country's relative wealth, based on offshore oil production that is now declining, more than a third of the population live on a minimum wage of less than US $80 per month.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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