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Anti-retroviral Plant in Mozambique Receives a Visit from Brazil's Lula
Lula, who hands over the reins to protege Dilma Rousseff on January 1, called the new anti-retroviral (ARV) drug factory in Mozambique a "revolution" for Africas efforts to control the disease.
"The fact that we are building the African continents first factory to produce anti-AIDS drugs can be seen as a revolution," Lula said at the plant on the outskirts of the Mozambican capital Maputo, a stop en route to this weeks G20 summit in Seoul.
The 25-million-dollar (18.1-million-euro) factory is being built with the help of 21 million dollars in aid from Brazil and is expected to begin packaging Brazilian-made pills by the end of 2011, producing its own pills by the end of 2012.
Lula, who proposed the idea on a state visit to Mozambique during his first year in office in 2003, toured the site of the new facility and inspected its first piece of equipment, a packaging machine donated by Brazil.
He said he hopes to return to inaugurate the factory when it is complete.
"We have a new president whos going to take over in Brazil on January 1, so I want to be here as a guest together with (Mozambican) President (Armando) Guebuza when Mozambiques anti-retroviral factory produces its first pill."
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