Swaziland: HIV patients 'eat dung to make drugs work'
Some HIV-positive patients in Swaziland are so poor they have resorted to eating cow dung before taking anti-retroviral drugs, Aids activists say.
The drugs do not work on an empty stomach, so patients have to use the dung - mixed with water - instead of food, the activists say.
Several hundred people protested in the capital, Mbabane, on Wednesday against the economic crisis in the kingdom.
King Mswati III's government has admitted it is running out of cash.
It has asked neighbouring South Africa for a bailout.
Protest organiser Sipho Dlamini told the BBC that growing hunger was forcing HIV/Aids patients to eat cow dung.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14312425
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