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Home > South Africa: AIDS drugs rollout starts in April

Contributor [1]
Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
149 [3]
Article-Summary: 

South Africa's long-delayed national rollout of AIDS drugs will begin in April when the government makes funds available to all nine provinces, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The country's biggest AIDS pressure group, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), had threatened to take the government to court before the April 14 elections unless it began the rollout.

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Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/21097 [5]
Country: 
South Africa [6]

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