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MSF Says Additional Resources Needed To Improve ART Access In Burma
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the largest provider of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Burma, also known as Myanmar, are calling for the gap between the need for and access to ART in the country to be closed, the Guardian reports. Approximately 240,000 people live with HIV in Burma, and doctors say half are in need of "urgent" ART, but national data estimates less than 30,000 were receiving ART in 2010, the newspaper writes, adding, "In a country where nearly 33 percent of people live below the poverty line, thousands of Burmese are unlikely ever to be able to afford ART, which, according to [MSF], cost $30 a month."
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