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 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - Former President Clinton and Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa launched a program Wednesday to expand HIV/AIDS treatment in rural areas by training health workers.
At least 30 medical workers will receive advance training each year and will go to remote areas that traditionally lacked health services under the initiative, called the Benjamin William Mkapa National HIV/AIDS Fellows Program.
The initiative is intended to provide treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS in those regions as supplies of cheaper and free life-prolonging medicines, known as antiretroviral drugs, trickle into this East African nation.
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