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Plans announced for AIDS treatment expansion

    JOHANNESBURG

    Mozambique has announced plans to increase the number of people on free anti-AIDS treatment by 12,000 this year.

    Despite expressing concerns about sustainability at the time, the southern African country successfully raised its treatment number from 3,300 in July last year to the current 8,000.

    Americo Assan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, told the Portuguese news agency, Lusa, that the country's 23 existing AIDS clinics would be reinforced by an additional 45 units in order to meet the target.

    An estimated 14.9 percent of Mozambique's more than 19 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.

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