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Tenders invited for anti-AIDS drugs

    JOHANNESBURG
    South Africa will on Friday invite tenders from pharmaceutical companies producing anti-AIDS drugs, the Ministry of Health has said. This follows fresh criticism from AIDS activists over the government's delay in its national antiretroviral rollout, announced in November. The national antiretroviral plan aims to provide drugs to about 50,000 people in 2004, rising to as many as 1.4 million HIV-positive people by 2009. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told reporters in Cape Town recently that notice of the tender would appear in a government bulletin and all major newspapers.

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