{"id":80979,"date":"2019-07-24T03:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80979"},"modified":"2019-07-24T03:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:21:19","slug":"demonstrations-affecting-hiv-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/24\/demonstrations-affecting-hiv-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Demonstrations affecting HIV patients\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Faith Kadzanja:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80567\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/demonstrations-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/demonstrations-2-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/demonstrations-2-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/demonstrations-2-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/demonstrations-2.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY\u2014 Demonstrators express their constitutional right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi Interfaith Aids Association (Miaa) has said political instability in the country is negatively affecting people living with HIV and Aids, citing failure to access antiretroviral therapy (ART) services.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation\u2019s acting executive director, Pirira Ndaferankhande, said the organisation had received reports of cases where people on ART have been failing to travel to public health facilities to access services.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cFor example, in districts such as Rumphi, Mchinji and Kasungu, people who are on ART are failing to go to public facilities to get medication, especially on days when demonstrations are taking place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cConsidering that ART services are not supposed to be interrupted, the [political] situation is putting lives of people living with HIV at risk. The disruption of government business means trouble for people living with HIV,\u201d<\/em> Ndaferankhande said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, women\u2019s rights activist Mirriam Kanyamula has urged stakeholders in national development to protect the healthcare service delivery system from disruptions that could spell death for innocent citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Miaa leaders said they were organising prayers in the country\u2019s administrative regions for peace to prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Civil society organisations have been holding anti- Malawi Electoral Commission Chairperson Justice Jane Ansah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/hrdc-promises-2-weekly-demonstrations\/\">demonstrations<\/a> for her to resign for allegedly mishandling the May 21 Tripartite Elections. The first round of demonstrations took place on June 20, followed by another round on July 4 and last week Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ansah recently described the calls as<em> \u201cmob justice\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Kadzanja: Malawi Interfaith Aids Association (Miaa) has said political instability in the country is negatively affecting people living with HIV and Aids, citing failure to access antiretroviral therapy (ART) services. The organisation\u2019s acting executive director, Pirira Ndaferankhande, said the organisation had received reports of cases where people on ART have been failing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80982,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80979\/revisions\/80982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}