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Antiretroviral drugs in South Africa’s rivers raise environmental concerns | SA News

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Significant concentrations of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) have been detected in South Africa’s water sources, particularly downstream of wastewater treatment plants, new research has found.

The drugs most frequently detected were lopinavir and efavirenz, with concentrations at some sites far exceeding global norms. This is attributed to South Africa’s HIV treatment programme, the most extensive of its kind in the world.

The research, by North-West University’s unit for environmental sciences and management and its Africa unit for transdisciplinary health research, included professors Suranie Horn, Rialet…

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