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'Clubs' Keep S. African HIV Patients on Drug Regimens

What do you do if you are HIV-positive and faced with taking a daily regimen of lifesaving antiretroviral drugs ... and you have to travel dozens of kilometers to a clinic and queue up for hours to get refills of the drugs, which cause unpleasant side effects such as nausea and diarrhea? That is the reality for many HIV-infected people. Those who do not feel sick may decide to stop taking their medication or only take it sporadically. That may cause a resurgence of the virus and lead to...


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