Uganda: Free Aids Drugs for Extra 32,000 Citizens

28 September 2010

Kampala — An extra 32,000 people living with HIV will receive free life-prolonging treatment over the next two years after the United States government gave Uganda more money.

Dr Kihumuro Apuuli, the director general of the Uganda Aids Commission (UAC), the government body that coordinates the national response to the epidemic, told Parliament yesterday that the new funding will double the number of Ugandans receiving free anti-retroviral treatment.

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