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Brazil receives 100 million dollars in WB loan to fight AIDS

Brazil has received a loan of 100 million US dollars from the World Bank (WB) to help fund the country's program to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases, the Health Ministry said on Friday.


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Brazil has received a loan of 100 million US dollars from the World Bank (WB) to help fund the country's program to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases, the Health Ministry said on Friday.

The Ministry said the Brazilian government will provide counterpart funding of 100 million dollars.

This is the WB's third loan to help Brazil fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic which has affected some 600,000 Brazilians in the countryof a population of 178 million. The WB loaned the country 160 million dollars in 1994 and 165 million dollars in 1998.

The money will be used to urge Brazilians to use condoms and promote an anti-retrovirus therapy developed by Brazil to control the advance of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Since 1996, Brazil has offered free treatment to HIV/AIDS patients, a move applauded by the world community fighting the disease.


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