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US launches plan to track fake AIDS drugs

    JOHANNESBURG

    The US government is to track the sale of anti-AIDS drugs on the parallel market in Uganda and 100 other countries, a local newspaper, New Vision, reported.

    The move to fight the diversion, counterfeiting and sale of these drugs is part of a five-year global strategy by the US, dubbed the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

    A document issued by the office of the global AIDS coordinator said less than eight percent of people in need of treatment in the targeted countries were receiving it.

    "In the focus countries, effective evaluation systems will identify successful models for scale-up, and poorly performing programmes for revision or termination," the document said.

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