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Large portion of UK millions to tackle AIDS

    JOHANNESBURG

    A significant proportion of new British funding in Africa will be used to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the British parliamentary under-secretary of state for International Development, Gareth Thomas, has said.

    The British government plans to spend close to US $145 million a year on poverty alleviation in Africa by 2006.

    Thomas told the South African Press Association that there was a very real need to focus on medium and long-term strategies to combat the spread of the disease.

    "Our sense is that the epidemic is so serious, we have to do more. The development that took place [in less well-off countries] is being reversed because of the virus," Thomas added.

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