Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk because they are unknowingly drinking water contaminated with antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), a study carried out by international scientists has revealed.
The study jointly conducted by African and European scientists found that water intended for drinking was contaminated with ARVs which are drugs meant to enhance the immune system of people diagnosed with HIV.
While the reports citing the findings do not mention how the drugs found the way into reservoirs of drinking water that residents of Nairobi and Kisumu in Kenya use, the concentration of ARVs were found to be far below the levels of a medical dose.
However, one of the scientists told the press that drinking such contaminated water “still exposed Kenyans to greater risks of developing resistance to certain drugs”.
Scientists from Kenya’s University of Eldoret and Ghent University in Belgium carried out the research.
Their findings follow previous claims that farmers in different countries across the region also use ARVs to fatten chickens. The Ministry of Health in Malawi had said it would issue an investigation to establish if such practices were also happening in the country.
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Zilibe Kathu NDE bwinoso coz sometimes timaiwala kumwa so tizingomwela Ku madzi komweko.Kkkkkiest
Eeeee ndi ku madabwatu ine kukozakoza ooooooo mukuchita ufitii?
Kkkk,
kodi nkhuku za nyamazi zikunenepa ndi ma ARV omwewo almost aliyense kuno analawapo this drug
Don’t blem me
Hundred of thousands people?? Whats that? Chizungutu chavutapo apa
what’s wrong here? have you read English Grammer writen by Ugundipe?
A Lilian Majawa, pepani musaonetse umbuli wanu poyelayela ngati apa. There is nothing wrong with sentence. Sukulu yanu munafika nayo pati mayi? Mubwelerenso ku sukulu chonde. It was better not to comment than exposing yourself bigtime like this. Kaya chizungu changati muchimva? Ndakaika.
Naweso udzamwa ukayezetse
Shame
Where exactly and what happen for the medicine find itself in drinking water? Stop threatening people.
Khani zanu wikuchuruka Boza
Living in Computer age,everything computerising
nesa zinachitika ku Kenya? mwati kunoku?
Hundreds of thousands of people ok mwina xool inakanika ine,,,
Amati ukatambatamba uziyang’ana mkumawa kuopa kungakuchele anthu inu musawakhukumudwitse azanu amene akumwa ma ARV mmawa ndiinu
It should rather be Water treated with ARV not contaminated kkkkk LMAO
Akumwa Ma A R V Sianthu?Musamalankhule Mokhumudwitsa Anthu Mawa Ndinu Tiwalemekeze Mankhwalawo Akusamala Miyoyo Yambiri
Sizikukhuzana akuti athu akugwirisa tchito ma AR v kukachaso
Bas Ndizakumwa Za Anthu Uimvetsetse Nkhaniy
Ma ARV ndi atiati pamenepa, akuluakuluwo kapena?