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AIDS drugs for thousands by 2005

    JOHANNESBURG
    The government of Malawi has pledged to provide free anti-AIDS treatment to some 50,000 people by 2005 with new funding from the Global AIDS Fund. However, Vice President Justin Malewezi was quoted by the Associated Press agency as saying: "This programme can only work if we defeat the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS so that more and more Malawians enrol in voluntary counselling and testing programmes." Research shows that only 3 percent of Malawians have been tested for HIV despite some 70,000 lives being claimed by AIDS-related illnesses each year.

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