We are experiencing the same problem im my community, there have been reports of patients being mugged of their ARVs and some sell their antiretrovirals, from what we heard from the community is that they combine heroin and ARVs into a coctail and they get high,this coctail is called Nyaope or Whoonga. The biggest concerned here is the HIV virus drugs and resistence .
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