The Tanzania Commission for AIDS has enrolled 52,085 HIV/AIDS patients to its anti-retrovirals (ARVs) treatment program as of Jan. 31 this year.

Out of the total, 25,840 patients are already on ARVs, according to the latest figure released by the commission over the weekend.

Among the patients already on ARVs program, known in the country as the National Care and Treatment Plan Project, 2,473 are children under the age of 15 years old.

The Tanzanian government is striving to reach a target of enrolling 100,000 AIDS patients to the program by December this year.

Seven percent of Tanzanians aged between 15 and 49, or 2.5 million, are living with either HIV virus or full-blown AIDS, according to figures released by the commission .

Source: Xinhua