ARV Therapy During Pandemic

The new target is 95-95-95, as declared at the United Nations High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in June. To achieve this, stakeholders in Indonesia must work extra hard.

KOMPAS/DEONISIA ARLINTA

Antiretroviral drug combination type TLE or tenofovir, lamivudine, and efavirenz. The Ministry of Health claims that the availability of this drug is safe until the end of 2019.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is still a major global public health issue that has claimed at least 36.3 million lives.

The virus causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which attacks the body’s immune system. People who have been infected with HIV are called “people living with HIV”, or PLHIV.