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Expansion of free anti-AIDS drug plan

    JOHANNESBURG

    At least 3,000 more HIV-positive people in Uganda will benefit from The AIDS Support Organisation's (TASO) free antiretroviral drug programme.

    TASO executive director Alex Coutinho said the organisation had received US $3.6 million from the US President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to fund the first phase of the drug rollout.

    The support group recently expressed concern that only 1,500 of its 30,000 patients were receiving anti-AIDS treatment.

    Coutinho told a local newspaper, New Vision, that with additional funding, TASO hoped to increase the number of people on treatment to about 7,000 by 2005 and up to 10,000 in 2006.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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