AFP/NaharNet, 07/23/2012
Mozambique on Saturday launched a Brazilian funded pharmaceutical plant that will make anti-retroviral drugs to battle the HIV/AIDS scourge in the southern African country.
The factory — built with $23 million in aid from Brazil and $4.5 million from that country’s mining giant Vale — will initially package drugs from Brazil but start producing the pills by the end of the year.
Mozambique has more than 2.5 million people living with HIV — nearly 12 percent of the population — but fewer than 300,000 of them now take anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, according to the health ministry.
