By next June a ramped up AIDS plan, announced by the South African government on Thursday, aims to test 15 million residents for HIV in the world's worst affected country.
President Jacob Zuma's cabinet, which approved the scaled up program on Wednesday, will lead a voluntary and public testing campaign with the goal of a 50 percent drop in the rate of infection by 2011.
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Tamil Nadu Saturday kick-started an HIV/AIDS control initiative to bring 1,000 higher educational institutions under the 'Red Ribbon Club' (RRC).
Tamil Nadu Saturday kick-started an HIV/AIDS control initiative to bring 1,000 higher educational institutions under the 'Red Ribbon Club' (RRC).
"All public health facilities, fixed and mobile, will be equipped to offer HIV testing and to provide ART's (antiretroviral therapy)."
An estimated 5.7 million of 48 million South Africans are HIV positive, according to the UN AIDS agency, with South Africa now boasting the world's largest treatment program after years of failure to roll out life-saving drugs.
Division Among Delegates To Dilute UN's AIDS Plans: Activists
As diplomats lock horns over the declaration to be issued after today's UN meet on AIDS.
As diplomats lock horns over the declaration to be issued after today's UN meet on AIDS.
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