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AU soldiers to be checked for AIDS

    JOHANNESBURG

    Sudan's Ministry of Health has announced that African Union (AU) peacekeepers entering Sudan to monitor a ceasefire deal in crisis-hit Darfur will be checked for HIV.

    According to the Sudanese Media Centre, health minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said every member of the AU contingent would have to produce a certificate proving they were not HIV-positive.

    Osman noted that the measure was purely precautionary and aimed at "safeguarding the health of the people of Darfur".

    The AU is expected to deploy more than 3,000 troops from five countries over the next few weeks in an expanded mission aimed at containing a 20-month-old conflict that has left 70,000 dead in Darfur.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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