The drugs will be bought with money from the government, the International Therapeutic Contingency Fund and other partners. The paper said a wider antiretroviral programme was envisaged after five pharmaceutical companies agreed with the government this week to lower the prices for their drugs.
Many retroviruses are know to cause cancer in animals.
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