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Contributor [1]
Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
77 [3]
Article-Summary: 

In Khayelitsha, South Africa, MSF is running an anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment programme where the results have been exceptional. Based on the results from the first six months of treatment to 177 patients in the programme, over 85 percent of the patients have responded with high rates of improvement.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/9613 [5]
Country: 
South Africa [6]

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