{"id":13301,"date":"2025-10-14T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-pharmacists-will-now-provide-hiv-medications\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:18","slug":"sa-pharmacists-will-now-provide-hiv-medications","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-pharmacists-will-now-provide-hiv-medications\/","title":{"rendered":"SA pharmacists will now provide HIV medications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The South African (SA) Pharmacy Council has announced that trained pharmacists for the &#8220;Pharmacist Initiated Management of Antiretroviral Therapy&#8221; also known as PIMART, will now provide HIV medications, including Post Exposure Prophylaxis, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Antiretrovirals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This follows the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissing an appeal by the IPA Foundation, an association representing a group of medical practitioners, seeking to stop the implementation of PIMART, following the 2023 North Gauteng Province High Court ruling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The SA Pharmacy Council says that SCA&#8217;s recent ruling confirms that PIMART is a necessary designed intervention programme to support South Africa&#8217;s fight against HIV and Aids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The regulator of the pharmacy profession in the country says the expanded access to HIV and AIDS treatment will now be a reality after the court judgment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13302,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13301","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"PIMART will provide HIV medications||PIMART will provide HIV medications","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18485,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13301\/revisions\/18485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}