Group asks ministry to expand medical care for HIV/AIDS

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives of a group of HIV/AIDS patients and their relatives who filed lawsuits in Tokyo and Osaka several years ago speak to reporters after talks with Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi in Tokyo on March 13. They called on the minister to expand medical services for AIDS and increase personnel and facilities at the Osaka National Hospital and the Tokyo-based AIDS Clinical Center (ACC), a center for Japan's AIDS medical services.

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