Can AIDS patients take a year's worth of antiviral drugs with them when flying to Africa?

Yes.

You can bring medicines when flying to Africa, but they are limited to personal medicines. If they are HIV/AIDS antiviral medicines that you take yourself, they can be carried and the amount per year does not exceed 20 kilograms. There is no need to check them in. ; Special drugs such as marijuana are not allowed to be carried. If the drug is liquid and exceeds a certain volume, it is not allowed to be carried with you and can only be checked.

The current international antiviral drugs include: nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, integrase inhibitors, etc.