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Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 02:00
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Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
195 [3]
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The South African HIV/AIDS advocacy group Treatment Action Campaign last Wednesday led about 2,000 people in a march outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town to demand that the government provide antiretroviral drugs at no cost to 200,000 HIV-positive people in the country by 2006. The South African Cabinet in November 2003 approved an HIV/AIDS treatment plan that aims to provide antiretroviral drugs to 1.2 million people - or about 25% of the country's HIV-positive population - at l...read more [4]

The South African HIV/AIDS advocacy group Treatment Action Campaign last Wednesday led about 2,000 people in a march outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town to demand that the government provide antiretroviral drugs at no cost to 200,000 HIV-positive people in the country by 2006. The South African Cabinet in November 2003 approved an HIV/AIDS treatment plan that aims to provide antiretroviral drugs to 1.2 million people - or about 25% of the country's HIV-positive population - at low or no cost by 2008.

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Food & Health [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/26990 [6]
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South Africa [7]

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