THE US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is to unveil plans to provide the South African government with a two-year supply of its Aids medication Diflucan at no cost, a company spokesman said. Diflucan – known generically as fluconazole – is an anti-fungal drug used to treat cryptococcal meningitis, a potentially fatal brain affliction, as well as a form of meningitis of the oesophagus. Such diseases are estimated to affect up to 40% of Aids sufferers. At the moment, South Africans who can afford to do so pay R76 for two tablets a day at reduced government rates. – AFP