{"id":6786,"date":"2012-05-01T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6786"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:19:48","slug":"how-much-do-arvs-cost-privately-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6786","title":{"rendered":"How much do ARVs cost privately in South Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Drug pricing for HIV meds is complex. It varies depending whether a country is rich or poor because global agreements and treatment programmes recognise that richer countries are able to pay more for basic medicine.<\/p>\n<p>It also related to how serious a health problem in terms of numbers of people who are HIV positive in that country. So although South Africa is a rich country, because HIV affects such a large percentage of the population, it can use generic HIV meds, which are also substantially cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>The cost for ARVs in private are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tac.org.za\/community\/node\/2021\">this web page from the Treatment Action Campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Drug pricing for HIV meds is complex. It varies depending whether a country is rich or poor because global agreements and treatment programmes recognise that richer countries are able to pay more for basic medicine. It also related to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","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\/6786","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}