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Rural Eastern Cape HIV/AIDS treatment reports success
01 November 2005. IRIN PlusNews. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
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An anti-AIDS treatment initiative launched two years ago in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, could soon reach every HIV-positive person in need of antiretrovirals in the rural town of Lusikisiki.
According to Dr TC Thomas, the superintendent of the local St Elizabeth Hospital, the programme was just 400 patients short of its 1,500 treatment target.
"If we can achieve this here, the whole country can achieve even more. Let us be a light for others by saving our own lives," Health-e, a local online news service, quoted Thomas as saying.
The programme, which was initiated by international NGO, Medicins Sans Frontieres, the provincial health department and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, has been hailed as the largest rural treatment effort in the country.
This item is delivered to the English Service of the United Nations' Humanitarian Information Unit but, may not necessarily reflect the views of the UN. |
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