Why we must provide treatment information

Irina Deobald

Russia

Treatment literacy when? Now!

ARVs are now available through the government, but there is still a lack of information. People are afraid of side effects, but the medical people don’t have time to discuss the side effects.

The medical staff does not have the time to communicate with the clients. We have peer counsellors to give information and their own experience. We have different printed materials. We do trainings and workshops for people with HIV. I hope to find new tools to make the information we have more accessible. We need to use common language more. We need cooperation with medical workers and state structures.

This web presentation is based on a book with photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans. It follows a global meeting held in Cape Town in 2006 organised by the Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa and i-Base, England.