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Swedes pay to treat world's HIV-positive

    JOHANNESBURG
    Three million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide are set to benefit from a Swedish pledge of US $5.2 million, Agence France-Presse reported. Sweden announced ahead of the World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting in Geneva earlier this week, the funds would help the WHO realise it "3 by 5" plan to allow three million HIV-positive people access to treatment by the end of 2005. WHO's 2004 World Health Report estimates that less than seven percent of the worlds six million HIV-positive people in urgent need of treatment currently have access to medical care. Swedish Health and Social Minister Morgan Johansson, said: "HIV/AIDS has catastrophic consequences for the individual, families and the entire society. Therefore it is important that the international community contributes to fighting the epidemic, as WHO has encouraged us to do."

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