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Five people died in Bulawayo 2019 after they being instructed by a prophet to stop taking ARVs.

National Aids Council Bulawayo Provincial Manager, Sinatra Nyathi, quoted by Health Times, urged people not to discontinue their medication for whatever reasons.

“Remember, when someone is on ART, the ARVs are responsible for suppressing the viral load to levels where we don’t want it to be detectable in their bloodstream.

So if you don’t take your drugs, you are actually giving the virus the change to multiply and most of the time when the person’s virus has multiplied to those levels, most of them they will not make it.

That is why we have got a challenge to say people are going to the prophets and faith-based organisations and say prophet so and so prayed for me and I threw away the drugs.”