{"id":17615,"date":"2021-09-05T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17615"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:28:47","slug":"can-i-buy-arvs-from-a-pharmacy-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17615","title":{"rendered":"Can I buy ARVs from a pharmacy without a prescription?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch and for letting us post your question online.<\/p>\n<p>All countries are supposed to need a prescription to buy HIV drugs. This includes In South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In some countries you might be able to buy some meds over the counter without a prescription (even if it is not legal). If you can do this, please make sure that you buy exactly the same meds that you usually take.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re having access issues, please talk to your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Explain your situation, ask to have a few months of meds, even up to six months. This is now common in many countries. Often this is because of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed now in many countries, including South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being given a month at a time it is more common to get med for 2-6 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am away a lot for work and find it hard to get to the clinic. Can I buy ARVs from the pharmacy? I live in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}