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Manufacture of cheap AIDS drugs starts

    JOHANNESBURG

    Scores of people living with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe are set to benefit from the local manufacture of generic anti-AIDS drugs, Agence France-Presse reported.

    Zimbabwean pharmaceutical company, Varichem Pharmaceuticals, on Tuesday announced it had started production and was manufacturing nine types of antiretrovirals.

    Research shows that around 70 percent of patients in Zimbabwe's hospitals suffer from AIDS-related illnesses.

    Meanwhile, the country planned to host its first national AIDS conference to be addressed by President Robert Mugabe and former Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda.

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