Government Awarded Millions For Banned HIV Kit

06 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone in Politics

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On Wednesday we told you all about a new home HIV testing kit that was approved by the FDA. There’s also another testing kit available on the market that isn’t approved. In fact, the World Health Organisation has banned it, due to high numbers of false results. Guess which one our government picked?

The National Treasury has confirmed that a tender valued at R22,5 million has been approved for the testing kits, in a report by Eyewitness News. The 4,5 million kits have been approved by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, who says that the kits have been but through testing and were okay.

This comes in spite of clear instructions by the World Health Organisation that the SD Bioline kits should NOT be distributed by governments.

An order for several million kits was placed in June, and is due to be distributed to state-run hospitals and clinics.

[Source: EWN]

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