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Canadian AIDS project planned for December

    JOHANNESBURG

    Lesotho is set to benefit from a Canadian AIDS initiative, to be launched in December.

    In response to an appeal by UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, the Ontario Hospital Association in Canada will set up a clinic in the tiny mountain kingdom, where an estimated 30 percent of adults are living with HIV/AIDS.

    According to Russell Armstrong, vice president of the Ottawa Hospital and part of the project, an advance team is expected to provide a complete assessment of how the clinic can become sustainable by building relationships with elders, government officials and local medical personnel.

    Canadian newspaper The Ottawa Citizen quoted Armstrong as saying: "It's particularly exciting, since we will be one of the first projects to set up since the availability of lower-cost drugs."

    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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