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Improved AIDS data monitoring system

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa says it plans to implement a system to monitor the health of HIV-positive people on the government's free treatment programme, the local Business Day reported.

    Just over 100,000 patients were estimated to be receiving anti-AIDS drugs at public clinics and hospitals since the programme was launched in 2003.

    However, Dr Nomonde Xundu, head of AIDS in the health department, said the absence of a patient monitoring system made it difficult to say how many people had dropped out of the programme, died, or had to change drugs because of side-effects.

    Xundu hoped to have the system fully implemented by the end of the year.

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