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Clinton urges "ambitious" anti-AIDS goals

    JOHANNESBURG

    Former US president Bill Clinton has urged African countries to set ambitious goals in their fight against HIV/AIDS, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported.

    During a visit to the African Union headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Clinton recalled that only four years ago anti-AIDS drugs had been expensive even by US standards.

    He attributed the cost of antiretroviral therapy falling from US$500 per person per year to about $109 largely to the development of generic drugs.

    Highlighting the pessimism still prevailing over whether all Africans would eventually receive treatment, Clinton said: "I hope we will be able to defeat such attitudes in my lifetime."

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