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HIV-positive on treatment set to double

    JOHANNESBURG

    The number of people receiving anti-AIDS treatment in Africa would soon double as a result of the first round of funding from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias has said.

    "With just this first round of funds, an additional 50,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the 14 focus countries will begin to receive antiretrovirals, which will nearly double the number of people who are currently receiving treatment in all of sub-Saharan Africa," Tobias said in a statement.

    The first instalments of the US $15 billion five-year plan were released to service providers in February, including $350 million pledged to organisations already in the business of AIDS care, prevention and treatment.

    Programmes caring for some 60,000 orphans who had lost one or both parent to HIV/AIDS would also receive support.

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