Uganda faces shortage of anti-retroviral treatments and other necessary equipments for HIV positive patients.
 
CEOAFRICA.com gathered that Clinics outside the capital have been complaining of drug shortages, especially of HIV test kits and ARVs.

John Barasa, who heads an ARV clinic in Busia in eastern Uganda, says the government is not been delivering all of the drugs his facility orders.
 
According to him, only six packs of ARVs out of 100 packs requested in June was delivered and to make up for the shortages, Barasa has been stretching his supplies by giving patients only one or two weeks’ worth of drugs at a time.
 
"Some, who have to travel for hours to reach the clinic, have been running out of medicine," he says.
 
But on a contrary, Ugandan health advocates such as Margaret Happy, who works with the National Forum of People Living with HIV, say that there is no shortage of drugs in the country.
 
"At facility level, it is very severe. However, at national level the situation seems to be very different."
 
Sources said the Ministry of Health even expressed that Uganda has plenty of ARVs, enough to last until December. Ministry spokesperson Rukia Nakamatte says the problem lies with the clinics themselves, and with health workers who do not know how to use the government’s new Internet-based system for ordering medicine.
 
"The current shortage that we are experiencing in some facilities is due to increased orders that are being placed wrongly. We have problems with some data entrants and bio-statisticians that are not able to enter the right data."She said.