{"id":9031,"date":"2018-03-16T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T05:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9031"},"modified":"2018-03-16T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T05:40:15","slug":"see-how-atm-pharmacy-gives-drugs-to-hiv-patients-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/see-how-atm-pharmacy-gives-drugs-to-hiv-patients-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"See how &#8216;ATM Pharmacy&#8217; gives drugs to HIV patients in S\/Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"program--News programBlockHeader\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article__title\"><strong style=\"font-size: 16px\">South Africa on Thursday launched an <span class=\"caps\">ATM<\/span>-like vending machine to dispense medicines to patients with chronic illnesses such as <span class=\"caps\">HIV<\/span>\/AIDS.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<section class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-content__text article-content__left-column\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"teads-ui-components-credits\">Officials say ,the move is aimed at reducing waiting times and congestion in public healthcare facilities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The health department and charity Right to Care said the Pharmacy Dispensing Unit (<span class=\"caps\">PDU<\/span>) designed as an Automated Teller Machine was the first of its kind in Africa, and allows patients with chronic illnesses such as <span class=\"caps\">HIV<\/span>\/AIDS to receive repeat medication in a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The unit, dubbed \u201c<span class=\"caps\">ATM<\/span> pharmacy\u201d, was launched in Johannesburg\u2019s Alexandra township.<\/p>\n<p>It works like a cash-vending machine but produces medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Patients can speak to pharmacists located at a call centre by using a telephone receiver on the <span class=\"caps\">PDU<\/span> and receive advise on their medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Primrose Good, 60, was among the first to try out the <span class=\"caps\">PDU<\/span> on Thursday when she collected her diabetes medication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis machine is helping me when it comes to time and helps me when it comes to standing because we are sick, we get dizzy at times because it gets very full. With this machine you just get here and punch in your numbers and take your medication and go home,\u201d said Good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to at least three patients, one patient was coming for the first time, she used to take\u2026 she\u2019s on <span class=\"caps\">ART<\/span> for a year, she used to queue in the clinic, she\u2019s really fascinated that she can come here, get her medication and go home, but I was with her at the <span class=\"caps\">ATM<\/span>, she was a little bit uneasy, but she say now second time, she will be able to use it,\u201d said Dr Gwendoline Ramokgopa, a Municipal Health Official.<\/p>\n<p>At the epicentre of the worldwide <span class=\"caps\">AIDS<\/span> pandemic, South Africa now boasts the largest treatment program in the world, with million people receiving the antiretroviral (<span class=\"caps\">ARV<\/span>) drugs that allow those living with <span class=\"caps\">HIV<\/span> to lead normal lives.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra is highly populated and public health facilities are overly burdened medics say.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty five-year-old Bathandwa Mbele, who is <span class=\"caps\">HIV<\/span> positive welcomed the <span class=\"caps\">ATM<\/span> pharmacy, saying she worried that as she searches for a job access to medication would interfere with her prospects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has really changed my life because I\u2019m no longer worried about collecting my pills late. I have to be sure that when I start working I have to be there by 8 in the morning and knowing that I have to fetch my tablets. I would worry that I have to skip work and at the same time, I\u2019m thinking that I have to go to the clinic and they will swear at me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Fear and stigma still surround the disease here and in many other parts of the world, meaning people are afraid of getting tested and from accessing life prolonging <span class=\"caps\">ARV<\/span> medication.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Reuters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa on Thursday launched an ATM-like vending machine to dispense medicines to patients with chronic illnesses such as HIV\/AIDS. Officials say ,the move is aimed at reducing waiting times and congestion in public healthcare facilities. 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