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In southern Africa, HIV-infected people are forced to eat dung before taking drugs

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28 July 2011, 22:13

According to humanitarian workers in a small country in southern Africa, Swaziland, HIV-infected, are so poor that before eating drugs, ART is forced to eat manure.

Doctors believe that drugs against AIDS are ineffective if taken on an empty stomach, and patients who do not have the means to eat normally stuff their stomach with a cow's dung, mixing it with water.

Activists from an organization fighting for the rights of HIV-infected people held a protest action in the capital of the country, Mbabane.

They called on the King of Swaziland Mswati III to allocate funds for the fight against AIDS in the country.

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