In the afternoons, as people take a rest after doing their chores and working in the fields, Lydia Kabokondo starts knocking on doors. Her rounds take in people who have diseases that can easily go undiagnosed and untreated. In rural Malawi, where a hospital or clinic is usually far away, illnesses – even serious non-communicable… Continue reading ‘Diabetic Malawians died at home’: HIV outreach helps bridge health gap | Global health
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A new mandate requires insurers to cover PrEP HIV prevention drugs by 2025
A national health task force’s sterling new endorsement of a long-acting injectable medication for use as HIV prevention will require health insurers to begin covering the pricey drug by 2025. Such expanded access to the preventive therapy could lend a much-needed boost to the country’s relatively anemic efforts to thwart the HIV epidemic. However, the… Continue reading A new mandate requires insurers to cover PrEP HIV prevention drugs by 2025