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US HIV/AIDS millions start to roll in

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa could soon receive an initial US $40 million to tackle HIV/AIDS, the US embassy said on Tuesday in the capital, Pretoria.

    The money forms part of the $2.4 billion approved by US congress for the 2004 financial year under President George W Bush's emergency plan for AIDS relief in African and Caribbean countries.

    US ambassador Cameron Hume told the National Press Club in Pretoria that the US embassy, which would administer the money, had already identified deserving programmes, in consultation with the South African government and non-government bodies.

    Hume said: "We are now at a point where we will be asking ourselves what do we do - working with our South African partners to ensure that... the aid is actually getting to individual South Africans who need the help."

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