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Alarming AIDS figure as government launches drug plan

    JOHANNESBURG

    Ethiopia's Ministry of Health said earlier this week that HIV/AIDS had claimed the lives of an estimated 90,000 adults and 25,000 children in 2004.

    The figures were released during the government's launch of its new three-year treatment plan that will include the provision of free antiretrovirals to 320,000 HIV-positive people.

    According to a local newspaper, The Daily Monitor, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the government had already completed necessary preparations, and remained committed to countering the pandemic.

    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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