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AIDS drug rollout around the corner

    JOHANNESBURG

    Swaziland's hospitals could begin dispensing HIV/AIDS drugs within a month, Pan African News Agency (PANA) reported on Wednesday.

    However, Dr Derrick Von Wisell, director of the National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA), said the final mechanism of how to make the drugs easily accessible was still being decided.

    Von Wisell said the drugs would be provided courtesy of a recent US $63 million Global AIDS Fund grant.

    Meanwhile, about 500 people living with HIV/AIDS were recently forced to leave the Mbabane government hospital due to lack of doctors.

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