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Article: Pediatric HIV/AIDS medical centers to be built in Africa.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- November 26, 2004
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2004 NOV 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb company (NYSE:BMY), New York; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; and the governments of Lesotho and Swaziland announced that medical centers focused on caring for children with HIV/AIDS will be built in Maseru, Lesotho and Mbabane, Swaziland. Both centers are expected to be opened by December 2005.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the world's hardest hit region with the AIDS pandemic, and Lesotho and Swaziland are among the countries with the greatest prevalence of HIV and the greatest need for treatment and training to fight the disease.
The centers will be funded by grants from Bristol-Myers ...