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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks - September 10, 2001
The government-owned newspaper quoted the Executive Director of the US-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Henry Chang, as saying that the first centre would be opened in Masaka District (one of the districts with the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS, in southern Uganda) on World AIDS day on 1 December, and would give more Ugandans access to drugs used to combat the disease. "We should strive to provide life-saving mechanisms now, and the Ministry of Health and my organisation will soon finalise the financial details of this joint venture," Chang said at the closure of the Great Lakes conference on HIV/AIDs care and support in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The location for the second centre had not yet been decided, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, the 'East African' newspaper reported on Monday that Ugandan district hospitals would soon start dispensing HIV/AIDS drugs throughout the country. All eleven district referral hospitals, including those at Gulu, Arua, Lira, Mbale, Mbarara and Soroti, would be supplied with the drugs, the weekly newspaper said. Medical personnel were currently being trained to administer treatment correctly, it added.
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