According to UNAIDS document that reached PANA on Wednesday."The situation is very precarious and means of communication to make drugs reach patients have deteriorated to a large extent," lamented Bernadette Mulelebwe, national director of the Femme Plus Foundation, a local NGO specialised in the supervision of people living with HIV/AIDS.
However, the situation is stabilising and some HIV-positive people are trained, in such a way that they have a place in the reconstruction effort and might work, especially after DR Congo has lost many executives to HIV/AIDS, Mulelebwe reassured.With 60 million inhabitants including 3 million HIV-positive people in the country, 300 thousand people are expected to be put on antiretrovirals (ARV).
"Even when the Global Fund to fight AIDS intervenes financially, there is a problem of distribution circuit," said Mulelebwe, who notes that international funding represent an indispensable manna but never a guarantee.The release of the UNAIDS fund was suspended last January on grounds of state mismanagement. 5 April 2007 - PANA