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Thousands to benefit from AIDS drug procurement

    JOHANNESBURG

    Tens of thousands of HIV-positive people are to benefit from Uganda's recent procurement of US $7.2 million worth of anti-AIDS drugs.

    Dr Tiberius Muhebwa, the resident director of the Global AIDS Fund, said the drugs would be made freely available to some 20,000 people at 104 health centres nationwide.

    He told the local New Vision newspaper that after an additional drug purchase of $26 million "in the near future", the government also planned, to place 60,000 more people on antiretroviral treatment.

    Over 10,000 Ugandans currently benefit from AIDS treatment programmes backed by the Global Fund.

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