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New AIDS funding

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Botswana Christian Aids Intervention Program (BOCAIP) is to receive a five-year grant of US$400,000 to support HIV/AIDS counselling and assistance programmes for women and children, from the US-based Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation.

    A foundation statement on Tuesday said it had also provided a one-year grant of US $32,000 to the Reetsanang Association of Community Drama Groups for ongoing HIV/AIDS awareness projects using theatre as a grassroots communication tool. Botswana’s health minister, Joy Phumaphi, welcomed the grants: “They provide education, care and support in line with our pledge to provide more assistance to people suffering from HIV/AIDS,” she said.

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