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US 3 million to expand televised AIDS education

    JOHANNESBURG

    The US has announced an investment of close to US $3 million to assist South Africa in expanding a televised HIV/AIDS education programme, a local news service, BuaNews, reported.

    The funding is part of President George Bush's emergency plan for global HIV/AIDS relief, and will be used to broaden the Health Channel, a satellite broadcast programme delivering AIDS education to patients and health care workers in clinics and hospitals throughout the country.

    Cameron Hume, the US ambassador to South Africa, said the HIV/AIDS pandemic was putting the country's public health care system under huge strain.

    Hume said: "Many health care workers, who work in under-resourced environments, need more training on the disease, and many patients will benefit from health promotion and education."

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