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Reuters NewMedia - July 31, 2002
Brazil's AIDS campaign spokesman said on Wednesday Portuguese-language countries, whose leaders are meeting in Brazil this week, have agreed on a joint project to fight the AIDS epidemic that ravages Mozambique and Angola but has been stemmed by widely acclaimed policies in Brazil.
The joint proposal, which will seek $30 million from the Global Fund for AIDS to finance the exchange of technology, treatment and prevention campaigns, is scheduled to be signed on Thursday by leaders of the Community of Portuguese-Language Countries at a meeting in Brazil's capital.
"This (money) is not sufficient but it is a start," said a spokesman for Brazil's AIDS campaign, which has become a model for the developing world.
About 13 percent of the population of Mozambique has AIDS while the infection rate has reached about 6 percent in Angola. Brazil has managed to keep HIV-AIDS infection rates to about 0.6 percent of the population with hard-hitting prevention campaigns and the free distribution of AIDS drugs.
The Portuguese-language community, founded in 1996, groups Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bisseau, Sao Tome and Principe, Mozambique and Angola and has East Timor as its newest member.
Leaders at the conference also agreed to ease travel and visa restrictions on visitors from other countries in the group.
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