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No drug plan for HIV-positive children

    JOHANNESBURG
    An AIDS NGO in Nigeria has expressed concern over the lack of treatment for the country's children living with HIV/AIDS. The Positive Life Association of Nigeria (PLAN) said the children were not benefiting from a government-subsidised programme that made antiretroviral drugs available to adults who needed them. Under the programme, HIV/AIDS drugs are administered to some 10,000 adults at subsidised rates of less than US $10 per month. Unsubsidised drugs currently cost around $500 per month. PLAN chairman Oba Oladapo, said more children were dying as a result of the government's delay in implementing an HIV/AIDS treatment plan specifically for children. The global news agency Inter Press Service, quoted Oladapo as saying: "Infected children have a right to life, just as their adult counterparts."

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