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Government plans to extend HIV testing services
Wednesday 9 March 2005
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TANZANIA: Government plans to extend HIV testing services


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JOHANNESBURG, 24 February (PLUSNEWS) - Tanzanian health officials have announced plans to screen some 25 million people for HIV by 2008.

According to the Deputy Health Minister, Hussein Mwinyi, the new plan was a prerequisite for the government to achieve its target of distributing anti-AIDS drugs to at least 500,000 people by then.

He told a local newspaper, The Citizen, that the use of rapid HIV testing kits were already being encouraged at most health facilities.

The east African country spent about US $7 million on providing free antiretrovirals for 2,000 people in 2002.

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