South Africa: EC Health Department Takes Over Largest HIV Rural Programme

13 October 2006

One of the country's largest rural HIV/AIDS programme was officially handed over to the Eastern Cape health department on Thursday in a ceremony held in Lusikisiki.

For the past 18 months, Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) have been gradually handing over the care of 2200 people on AIDS drugs and HIV services to nurses and doctors in the province.

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