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No HIV/AIDS drug roll-out in February

    JOHANNESBURG

    Mozambique's Health Ministry has dismissed reports that the government is about to provide antiretroviral drugs to HIV-positive people in the central city of Beira.

    The Mozambican news agency AIM reported on Thursday an announcement by Sofala provincial health director, Alberto Baptista, that Beira Central Hospital would be ready to dispense antiretroviral drugs in February.

    "No funding has been allocated to dispense and monitor HIV/AIDS
    treatment for the city of Beira," head of the epidemiological
    department of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Rosa Marlene Lanjate, told the UN news service Plusnews.

    "The clinic at Beira Central Hospital was launched in September 2002 only for the monitoring and evaluation of PWAs, and not to dispense HIV/AIDS drugs," Lanjate said.

    The government is still negotiating a US $55 million World Bank grant for a number of HIV/AIDS programmes, including the provision of treatment, Lanjate added.

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