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AIDS treatment expected to treble by mid 2005

    JOHANNESBURG

    A US $14 million Global AIDS Fund grant could put Malawi's plan to scale up its national antiretroviral rollout on course, a health official has said.

    Biswick Mwale, head of the national AIDS commission, told Agence France-Presse the funds could bring about a threefold increase in the number of people on anti-AIDS treatment by July.

    The grant is part of a total amount of $41 million committed to Malawi over two years.

    There are currently 9,500 people enrolled in the government treatment programme. UNAIDS has estimated that 14 percent of adults aged between 15 and 49 are living with HIV and AIDS.

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