Every day Mary (not her real name) is faced with the struggle of getting her young daughter to take her anti-retroviral medication and then wait for the side effects which can vary from week to week.
Mary herself is struggling with side effects from her HIV/AIDS treatment regimen – as she was speaking to Sunday Stabroek she was dealing with swollen feet – but she is more worried about her daughter. She would prefer her daughter to be given a liquid suspension, instead of the one tablet in the morning and two halves in the evening.
“It is very hard for me to watch her because right now she
