Panafrican News Agency (Dakar) - April 9, 2001
The centres, which would specialise in the care and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients, would screen sero-positive pregnant women with a view to curbing maternal transmission.
They are also expected to treat opportunistic diseases like tuberculosis as well as organise awareness campaigns to prevent this disease.
They would be set up across the entire country and placed under the authority of Provincial Delegates of Health.
The Centre Province, which includes the capital Yaounde, has alone been allocated six centres. The Littoral Province has two, while the remaining eight Province have a centre each.
The authorities are hoping that the decentralisation would make anti-retroviral medication more accessible to patients, who may now obtain them at 70,000 FCFA per month.
The centres would also be provided with the appropriate equipment for testing and confirming results, which would then be forwarded to the national AIDS eradication centre every three months for statistical purposes.
Cameroon has an AIDS prevalence rate of 11 per cent.
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