There is no ARVs shortage in the country despite a delay in the supply of the essential drugs, health PS Peter Tum said.
Tum said the ministry reviews supplies routinely to ensure there is a three-month stock level at all time.
In a statement on Monday, Tum said the delay
facing supply of 540,730 patients packs of Atazanir/Ritonavir(ATV/r) and 80,000 kits of HIV Determine Rapid Test kits among other commodities under the global fund counterpart funding had been resolved.
The PS said the obstacle in the supply of the drugs was as a result of global supply constraints of raw materials.
“The Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients-API issues have been sorted out and the supplier committed to deliver as follows 100,000 by September 15, 2018, and
another 100,000 by September,” Tum said.
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On the testing kits,
Tum said 80,000 were wrongly labelled.
He said the supplier labelled them
with USAID not for resale instead of GOK- MOH not for sale.
“The supplier took a long time to send a team to the country to correct the error, this batch also suffered the same problem as above,” Tum added.
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He said that correction had been done and payments being done.
