And they support them around the diagnosis and educate them about how to take their medicines, how to take care of themselves, how to take care of their babies.
Supplementary benefit for medicinal products helps to compensate expenditure on medicines primarily for those insured persons whose treatment schemes include expensive medicines, who suffer from chronic diseases and therefore have to take medicines during a long period or have to use a combination of several medicines.
One scholar likened Zedekiah to “a patient returning again and again to a doctor in search of reassurance, yet unwilling to take the medicine prescribed.”
They are able to take the medicines the proper way, particularly when HIV treatment is combined with drug dependency treatment, in combination with psychological and social support.
They saved people such as Silverio, who spends hours every week simply sitting next to patients and encouraging them to take their medicine, even though they hated doing so.