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Global Fund money in the bag

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zambia’s health minister has announced that his country is to receive its US $92 million grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

    Minister Brian Chituwo made the announcement on Monday, having met with officials from the Fund, The Post newspaper reported.

    According to Chituwo, the grant will be made over three years. Some US $19 million will be released this year, he said.

    In November, Chituwo said some of the Global Fund grant would be used to provide antiretroviral drugs to 10,000 HIV-positive Zambians. However, last week, the Network of Zambian People Living With HIV/AIDS (NZP+) said the government had yet to devise a treatment policy.

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