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Clinton assists with AIDS treatment expansion and training

    JOHANNESBURG

    Former US President Bill Clinton on Wednesday launched a health worker training programme in Tanzania to expand anti-AIDS treatment to rural areas.

    The 'Benjamin William Mkapa HIV/AIDS Fellows Programme', named after the country's president, will enable health personnel to provide treatment in remote areas that lack health services.

    The new programme is an integral part of the Clinton Foundation's Rural Initiative, which seeks to extend access to antiretrovirals to the most socio-economically disadvantaged and remotely located people.

    Agence France-Presse quoted Clinton as saying, "Having drugs around also needs increased availability of highly skilled people to administer them and facilitate proper testing, care and management of those infected and on anti-AIDS treatment. It is in this area that my Foundation and Mkapa's want to work together."

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