February 11, 2005

U. of Zambia Offers Free Anti-AIDS Drugs to Students, Staff, and Faculty Members

By HENK ROSSOUW

The University of Zambia will give free anti-AIDS drugs to HIV-positive faculty members and students, the university has announced, noting the death toll the disease has exacted in recent years on the institution's professors.

"It is a compassionate response to the needs of colleagues and family members who were dying as inpatients at the university clinic," said Robert Serpell, the university's vice chancellor. The United Nations has estimated that 16.5 percent of Zambians are