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The placing of the first stone at Blantyre
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On December 6th at Blantyre the first stone was laid for the polyvalent centre of the DREAM program for the treatment of AIDS. It will host the reception, the molecular biology laboratory and the maternal and infantile centre.
Representatives of the Community of Sant�Egidio and civil and religious authorities of the Country attended the ceremony.
Malawi is a small wedge of a Country in austral Africa between Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: it has eleven million inhabitants and more than a million orphans because of AIDS.
The spreading of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is decimating the population, it has lowered life expectancy by more than ten years, emptied fields and schools, generating a steady progression in poverty.
The Community of Sant�Egidio has started the antiretroviral therapy some time ago. At present about 600patients are on treatment, but the program is expanding quickly.
The realization of the centre at Blantyre will enable to further increase activities. The centre will open in July 2005.
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