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HIV-positive benefit from WFP relief

    JOHANNESBURG

    People living with HIV/AIDS in the Central African Republic (CAR) are currently receiving relief aid from the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

    The WFP country representative, David Bulman, said the feeding scheme was expected to run until the end of November and assist some 11,000 people.

    Bulman told the UN news service PlusNews: "People living with HIV/AIDS need significant nutritional support to fight opportunistic infections that accompany the virus."

    He said most people living with HIV/AIDS were spending great sums of money on fighting opportunistic infections and had no money left over for food.

    Bulman confirmed that a number of the country's health and nutritional centres, as well as widows and orphans of the pandemic were benefiting from the scheme.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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