Last updated: 2 december, 2009 - 13:58 GMT

New ARV drugs guidelines

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The World Health Organisation has come up with new guidelines that could affect the more than twenty million people in Africa living with HIV.

One of the key recommendations concerns when drugs that help fight the spread of the virus should be given.

Damian Zane has been looking at some of the details.

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