Answer: Dear Angella, Although the cardinal goal of putting people with HIV (PWH), like your mother, on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is to suppress the virus, HIV/AIDS care goes beyond providing ARVs.

Kenya's Antiretroviral (ARVs) stock can last for six months only following the move by USAID to freeze funding in the health sector according to the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC).

The article alleged that the US government donated ARVs worth Sh3.3 billion to the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) in October last year.

“Pharmaceuticals such as ARVs are drugs used to treat diseases – they do not cause diseases. Therefore, the presence of traces of ARVs in the water will not result in people contracting HIV.