People living with HIV and AIDS are having difficulties in accessing second line drugs from public institutions and are being forced to buy them from pharmacies at US$25 for one-month's supply.
Mr Stanley Takaona of the Zimbabwe HIV and AIDS Activist Union Community Trust (ZHAUCT) said some members of his organisation were turned away from Wilkins Hospital and given prescriptions to source the drugs from pharmacies.
Mr Takaona said second and third line drug regimens were expensive and turning away patients on ART was akin to passing a death sentence on them.
"Patients cannot afford the high cost of drugs in these Covid-19 times where supplies from pharmacies cost US$25.
Mr Takaona said under normal circumstances, ART patients on the second line drug regime received drug supplies of up to three months.
