BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand rolled out a national plan on Saturday to give life-saving drugs to people living with HIV-AIDS, one of the few Asian nations to offer universal treatment in a region where the virus threatens to run rampant.
Thailand, long a model for prevention against a virus that infects some 540,000 Thais, says 80,000 people will receive anti-retroviral drugs under an expanded programme covered by the public healthcare plan.
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