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AIDS treatment extended to civil servants

    JOHANNESBURG

    Uganda is for the first time including its civil servants and their immediate family members in the country's anti-AIDS treatment programme.

    According to the Minister for Economic Monitoring, Omwony Ojwok, a public service employee survey conducted in 2000 revealed that 3.4 percent of the workforce had died from AIDS-related illnesses between 1995 and 1999.

    "The cost of educating and training these highly specialised people, who are responsible for drawing up and planning government policies, is very high - their expertise is not easily replicated," Ojwok recent told the UN HIV/AIDS news service, PlusNews.

    He said the programme aimed to treat an estimated 10,000 of the 230,000 government workers in dire need of antiretroviral 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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