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Free AIDS drugs amid Global Fund delays

    JOHANNESBURG

    Namibians are still waiting for the release of more than US $170 million awarded by the Global AIDS Fund almost two years ago to tackle AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

    A local newspaper, The Namibian, reported that the government was close to signing an agreement for the release of the first instalment of around $22 million to combat the three diseases, but was unable to say when this would take place.

    At least $18 million of the grant is expected to provide anti-AIDS drugs to 13,000 of the estimated 230,000 HIV-positive patients at 35 state hospitals by the end of 2006.

    Free AIDS treatment is now offered at the larger state hospitals in each of the country's 13 regions.

    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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