Home-based programmes cut African AIDS deaths-study

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Providing HIV drug cocktails to people in their homes can cut AIDS-related deaths substantially in poor, rural areas of Africa, researchers said on Friday.

A study in Uganda showed that hiring local health workers to help people stick to a strict regimen of drugs cut the number of AIDS deaths by more than 90 percent.

"These results were achieved even though no routine clinic visits were scheduled after initial enrolment, and home visits were provided by trained lay providers," Jonathan Mermin, a researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and colleagues wrote in the journal Lancet.

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