The governments of Republic of Congo and France have signed an agreement under which the French will provide funding support for a HIV/AIDS information and documentation centre, at a cost of 20 million CFA, and a medical centre at a cost of 800,000 CFA - and not 20 million and 800,000 French francs respectively, as mistakenly reported in IRIN’s Republic of Congo Briefs of 17 November. Both projects were part of the National Sanitary Development Plan (PNDS), which defined national strategies to achieve the objective of ‘Health for All’ promoted by the Bamako Initiative, OCHA stated in its October report. An estimated 86,000 women and children in the Republic of Congo are living with HIV infection, according to UNAIDS statistics.
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