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Free AIDS Drugs Slash Death Rate in Malawi Study
May 8, 2008
By Ben Hirschler
Providing free AIDS drugs to people in northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating a recent ramp-up in treatment in poor parts of rural Africa, researchers said.
Just eight months after a free clinic opened in Karonga Town in June 2005, the death rate in a rural area 80 km (50 miles) away had fallen enough to be detected at the general population level, they wrote in the Lancet medical journal.
"I think people didn't expect to see an effect that quickly," investigator Judith Glynn of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told Reuters.
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 9 May 2008
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