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    ARMENIA RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL GRANT TO FIGHT AIDS

    ArmInfo News Agency
    Sept 30 2005

    Yerevan, 30 September: Armenia has received a grant worth 4m dollars
    to fight HIV/AIDS within the framework of the project of the Global
    Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The recipient of the
    grant is the World Vision office in Armenia.

    The grant will be used to implement the second stage of the national
    programme to combat AIDS, a source in the World Vision office in
    Yerevan said. In 2003-2005, the fund allocated 3.2m dollars to
    implement the first stage of the project. An official ceremony to
    sign the document on the allocation of the grant is scheduled for 5
    October this year.

    According to the republican HIV/AIDS centre, by 1 September 356
    HIV-positive cases had been registered in Armenia and 92 people had
    been diagnosed as having AIDS. A total of 70 people have died since
    the first HIV/AIDS infected Armenian patient was registered. However,
    specialists of the centre say that official figures cannot reflect
    the real situation in the country, as the actual figures are 10 times
    higher. Specialists of the centre believe that over 3,000 people are
    HIV-positive in Armenia.
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