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COMMENTS: Sciutto Shows us the Slums of Durban
Efavirenz is the name of an antiretroviral medicine that is saving the lives of 500,000 of South Africa's 5m HIV-positive patients. It also happens to be a cheap narcotic high when crushed and smoked. ABC's Jim Sciutto took a trip to the slums of Durban where the medicine is sold in a thriving black market. Not only does smoking Efavirenz mean that it is not available to cure the sick, Sciutto told us of a second, more serious danger: "The drug abusers are in effect giving HIV a small piece of an antiretroviral medication, not enough to kill the virus but enough for it potentially to develop resistance."
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