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Financial boost for HIV/AIDS care project

    JOHANNESBURG

    A US grant of US $5 million aims to make palliative care available to more people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

    The two-year pledge to the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) is part of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

    An advocacy officer for HPCA, Joan Marston, said in a statement that funding of the Palliative Care Development Project would enable the association to expand national and provincial structures to make care available to many more HIV-positive people.

    "With South Africa's HIV infection rate at 20 percent among adults, an estimated five million adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, and approximately 600 people dying of AIDS-related illnesses daily, the need for extensive palliative care structures is a matter of national urgency," Marston said.

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