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E Cape treats more than half of 2005 AIDS target

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa's Eastern Cape provincial health department has announced its anti-AIDS treatment programme is on track.

    The department said 1,524 HIV-positive people were receiving antiretrovirals, representing 55 percent of its projected target of 2,750 people on treatment by March next year.

    The South African Press association quoted department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo as saying: "At least 26,931 HIV-positive people have gone through the screening process of counselling and testing."

    Kupelo said plans were underway to increase the number of treatment sites in the province and pointed out that over US $12 million of its more than $20 million budget had already been used.

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