Dr Benard Michael Etukoit, Executive Director at TASO said they had seen a lot of false alerts on social media claiming that their clinics had purportedly closed and yet all their eleven clinics that offer Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatments remain open.
Michael Ochwoo, the Centre Manager for TASO Gulu says several persons living with HIV who could not afford transport at the time of the lockdown were forced to abandon treatment.