Dying from a treatable disease: HIV and the men we neglect

By: Kathryn Dovel, Sara Yeatman, & Susan Watkins

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In rural Malawi it is not uncommon for neighbours to see a skeletal man being pushed in a wheelbarrow by his son or his brother. The frail man is being taken to the nearest clinic because he is too sick from HIV to walk. When they arrive, he is given anti-retroviral medication. But it is likely to be too late. So instead of being sent home, he is sent to the men’s ward nicknamed the “death ward”.

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