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Free AIDS treatment underway

    JOHANNESBURG

    Guinea-Bissau has opened its first treatment centre providing antiretroviral therapy free of charge to people living with HIV/AIDS.

    The centre is situated at a recently renovated hospital in the capital, Bissau, and will also treat people from other countries in the sub-region.

    The former Portuguese colony of 1.3 million people is bounded in the north by Senegal and by Guinea-Conakry in the south and east.

    UNAIDS estimated at the end of 2001 that 2.8 percent of all adults aged between 15 and 49 were living with HIV/AIDS.

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