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Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 02:00
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Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
141 [3]
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Ghana earlier this month began providing antiretroviral treatment to some HIV-positive people living in the country, Reuters reports. Sekyi Amoah, director-general of the Ghana AIDS Commission, said, "We started providing free antiretroviral drugs to patients in four hospitals around the country this month. Our target is to have 6,000 people on the drugs each year over the next two years."

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Food & Health [4]
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Country: 
Ghana [6]

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