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Free anti-AIDS drug roll out starts

    JOHANNESBURG

    South African health authorities in the Gauteng Province on Thursday began distributing free antiretroviral drugs to people living with HIV/AIDS.

    The programme kicked off in five major hospitals including the province's mammoth Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in the southwestern township of Soweto.

    "We are sure that the roll out has started smoothly in all five hospitals," Provincial health department spokesman, Simon Zwane told the South African Press Association.

    The department hopes to treat about 100 new cases of HIV/AIDS each week, with the eventual aim of treating a total of 10,000
    people at 23 sites throughout the province by March 2005.

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