MOH's move to give anti-HIV drug hits religious fault lines

The Health Ministry's decision to provide free access to an oral medicine taken to prevent contracting HIV from sex and injection drug use has received pushback from some healthcare professionals.

The objections centre around religious reasons, with critics being concerned that providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for free would be condoning homosexual sex, which is against Islam.

However, organisations advocating on the issue said not...