Facing up to aids in vietnam

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Little more than one in four of poor people who are badly infected with the AIDS virus have access to the antiretroviral drugs that could save their lives, UN health agencies were set to say on Tuesday in a major report. The World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS and Unicef warned that many obstacles hinder goals to achieve universal access to prevention and care programmes for HIV/AIDS by 2010. Vietnam has implemented new laws hailed as the world's most comprehensive aimed at tackling the spread of the virus. Repeat of an AFPTV report from Hanoi originally filed November 10, 2006. UN report under embargo until Tuesday at 1230 GMT.
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