24 November 2016 - Three years after a irrefutable case was made by HIV organisations and specialists the NZAF is reporting to an online petition to pressure PHARMAC to actually fund the recommended medication regime.
Scientific research from around the world, backed up by UNAIDS, shows that there are benefits to newly-diagnosed HIV patients being immediately put onto a drug combination regime. It has been proven to have positive health outcomes for the patient. It also reduces their viral load making them almost immediately much less infectious and therefore assists greatly in reducing the number of HIV infections.