Jamaica health ministry receives key HIV drug

(Jamaica Observer) The Ministry of Health says that it now has an adequate supply Lopinovir/Ritonavir, having received a shipment of the HIV-drug and with a second expected to arrive in Jamaica early next month.

Lopinovir is one of ten drugs available in the public health sector to treat HIV and a shortage had meant that patients were only receiving a week’s supply of the life-saving drug instead of the monthly