Why we must provide treatment information

Irina Deobald

Russia

Why treatment literacy?

In one Russian region there was a shortage of drugs and people started taking half of the dose. But this meant they could develop resistance. The drugs were back in stock again in a few weeks, but they didn’t know how to correctly manage the interruption. They didn’t have the correct information

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.