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	Tuesday 21 February 2006

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GUINEA-BISSAU: Free AIDS treatment underway

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JOHANNESBURG, 5 January (PLUSNEWS) - Guinea-Bissau has opened its first treatment centre providing antiretroviral therapy free of charge to people living with HIV/AIDS.

The centre is situated at a recently renovated hospital in the capital, Bissau, and will also treat people from other countries in the sub-region.

The former Portuguese colony of 1.3 million people is bounded in the north by Senegal and by Guinea-Conakry in the south and east.

UNAIDS estimated at the end of 2001 that 2.8 percent of all adults aged between 15 and 49 were living with HIV/AIDS.

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Recent GUINEA-BISSAU Reports

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Brazil to sponsor first ARV treatment programme, 3/Dec/04

Government launches first big push against AIDS, 27/Jul/04

Country's first AIDS treatment centre opens in renovated hospital, 19/Dec/03

Prime Minister to chair committee on HIV/AIDS, 5/Nov/03

Links

AIDS Media Center

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria

International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS

AEGIS

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

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