Indian HIV patient Rekha has missed her daily dose of medicine several times over the last few months because the government distribution centre at New Delhi’s Lok Nayak Hospital ran out of drugs. “Sometimes they give it to me for one week, sometimes two weeks, but not more. They keep saying the drug has not arrived from NACO,” said Rekha, referring to India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), a part of the healthcare ministry. The community motivator at an HIV/AIDS support group, who declined to give her surname, cannot afford to buy the drugs on the open market. Like thousands of other HIV/AIDS sufferers, she relies on free antiretroviral drugs handed out at state-run healthcare providers supplied by NACO through a tender process.

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