Aids grant approved

A long-delayed €33.4m grant from the UN to help combat the Aids pandemic ravaging South Africa was approved by the Johannesburg government, officials said.

The grant includes money for Aids drugs and testing for the disease in the KwaZulu-Natal province where studies show more than one in three adults are HIV-positive.

The grant will mark the first wide-scale opportunity South Africans will have to receive Aids drugs through the public health care system.