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Free AIDS drugs reach thousands more

    JOHANNESBURG
    Uganda has launched a programme to distribute free antiretroviral drugs through 26 of its health centres. Health Minister Jim Muhwezi told the UN news service, Plusnews, that the programme would target mainly poor people affected by HIV/AIDS. Research shows that only 10,000 of Uganda's 100,000 people who are in urgent need of anti-AIDS drugs are able to access them, and were doing so mainly through private suppliers. The programme aims to immediately reach another 2,700 people, especially the poor and civil servants.

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