translated from Spanish: They protest in CDMX by shortages of antiretroviral drugs in at least six States in the country

With the slogan “Zero provisions, zero shortages”, members of the national movement in the fight against HIV demonstrated on Thursday in front of the building of the Ministry of health in the city of Mexico, due to the scarcity of antrirretrovirales that occurs in some hospitals in the country.
According to the Reforma newspaper reports, the protesters took the middle lanes of Paseo de la Reforma for at least two hours.
The protesters indicated that they not be removed from the area to be received by the Secretary of health, Jorge Alcocer.
Luis Adrián Quiroz, President of the dependants living with HIV/AIDS of the Mexican Institute of Social Security accused that the shortage is due to that, since March, the Secretary of health has not carried out the purchase of drugs, with the argument that are reviewing the bids to avoid acts of corruption.
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The organization reported that there is a lack of medicines at least in Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chihuahua, and Baja California.
On 30 April, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation México (AHF Mexico) International Association sent a letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, where it warns about possible shortages of antiretroviral drugs at national level as a result of the new mechanism for purchase of medicines.
This accusation of shortages was confirmed by the titular members of the National Council for the prevention and control of AIDS (Conasida), who also sent a letter to the President, in which they accuse that it has impeded the process of purchase of medicaments.
On these facts, the National Commission on Human Rights requested measures precautionary and it called on the Ministry of health to ensure the timely delivery of drugs.
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Original source in Spanish