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Anti-AIDS drugs made freely available

    JOHANNESBURG
    The international medical NGO, Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) has made antiretroviral drugs freely available to all people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda's northwestern Arua district. MSF mission director, Isabelle Voiret, said that while the original aim was to distribute free anti-AIDS drugs only to HIV-positive expectant mothers, the organisation now supplied the drugs to all who could not afford them. During a recent interview with a local newspaper, The Monitor, Voiret said: "We are providing antiretroviral drugs free of charge, and to everybody who needs them." MSF is spending around US $24,000 per month on anti-AIDS drug therapy for an estimated 520 HIV-positive people who are now receiving treatment in Arua hospital.

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