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Free AIDS drugs for thousands

    JOHANNESBURG

    The US has announced plans to provide free anti-AIDS treatment to over 200,000 HIV-positive Ethiopians over the next five years.

    According to assistant US Global AIDS coordinator Mark Dybul, this will follow the provision of free drugs to 15,000 people at 20 sites by the end of March 2005.

    The cost of the March treatment target is estimated at US $43 million and is part of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a five-year $15 billion initiative to tackle HIV/AIDS.

    A local newspaper, The Daily Monitor, quoted Dybul as saying: "Ethiopia is one of 15 countries that are getting a huge amount of money from [PEPFAR]."

    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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