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Government AIDS plan criticised

    JOHANNESBURG
    The British charity, ActionAid, on Tuesday criticised the Kenyan government's latest effort to tackle HIV/AIDS. The government last week announced it would provide low-cost or free antiretroviral treatment for up to 20 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS by 2005. However, ActionAid said the government's plan was "too little too late". "We have had an HIV/AIDS crisis since the early 1990s. To say that only 40,000 [20 percent] will get treatment by 2005 is just a token gesture," ActionAid national HIV/AIDS coordinator, Chris Ouma, told the UN news service PlusNews. Meanwhile, Kenya's AIDS NGO Consortium (KANCO) has hailed the government-proposed treatment plan as a "step in the right direction".

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