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08:51, July 22, 2007 |
Almost 40,000 Dar es Salaam residents have taken part in the voluntary blood tests for HIV/ AIDS in the first week after a nationwide campaign was launched in the municipality.
Local English tabloid The Citizen on Saturday quoted Bennett Fimbo of the National AIDS Control Program as saying that 39,274 Dar es Salaam residents had taken part in the blood tests so far.
The recorded figure of HIV test volunteers accounted for 11 percent of the projected 350,000 volunteers nationwide before the end of this year, the program official said.
The record also showed that more men than women had volunteered to take the voluntary blood tests which were flagged off by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete on July 14 in the municipality.
Source: Xinhua
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