Tanzania: Free drugs for HIV/AIDS patients

Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa announced on Tuesday that the government would start distributing anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) free to HIV/AIDS patients from October. "There is no cure for AIDS yet, these drugs can only prolong lives," Mkapa said in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, during the signing of an US $87.9-million grant from the Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.