{"id":58,"date":"2012-08-04T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T09:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/whywemust\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:30:05","slug":"paul-kasonakoma-zambia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/index\/paul-kasonakoma-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kasonakoma, Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/tl\/report\/images\/pk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Paul Kasonakoma<\/h1>\n<h2>Zambia<\/h2>\n<p>We heard of a person who went to a conference and ran out of his medicine. He then came home and counted the number of days he missed, then took them all at once. He died. He didn&#8217;t know better.<\/p>\n<p>People are afraid of the drugs. If you ask the average Zambian about antiretrovirals (ARVs), they say the person with HIV on treatment dies like a pig \u2013 fat, instead of skinny like with AIDS. We say, &#8220;Look, we are taking these drugs and we are living.&#8221; This makes a lot of sense to people.<\/p>\n<p>We see many side effects with stavudine \u2013 peripheral neuropathy and lipodystrophy. People don&#8217;t have the capacity to go back to the doctor and say, &#8220;This is not working for me.&#8221; If people on treatment know how to recognise these symptoms in the early stages, then they can change drugs before it is too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kasonakoma Zambia We heard of a person who went to a conference and ran out of his medicine. He then came home and counted the number of days he missed, then took them all at once. He died. He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/259"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}