Folks,
Yes, good idea, we all want to have control from the spread of HIV Aids and support funding to provide remedy.
But,
In the re-structuring for the Aids funding proposal, I hope Beth Mugo will this time round provide details and documentation for public information, on specific target group for Aid Patients, but not incorporating bulkanization of the previously disputed cutting of organ tips in the Greater Luo Nyanza Region or she have to give tangible satisfactory reason why and how with confirming %age data indicating those tips are the reason or the source or root cause of the HIV pandemic spread in Kenya.
Best Regards,
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Criteria for Aids funding reviewed
By PAUL JUMA
In Summary
Kenya upbeat Round Ten bid to Global Fund will succeed
The Global Fund’s revised criteria for funding has injected fresh optimism into the Kenyan government whose proposals were rejected last year.
In April, the board of the Global Fund for Aids, TB and Malaria decided that the criteria for funding will be based on a country’s disease burden and poverty index, besides the usual recommendations by the technical review panel.
Public Health and Sanitation minister Beth Mugo on Monday said she hoped Kenya’s call for funding in Round Ten will bear fruit.
“This timely consideration will go a long way in ensuring that the Global Fund directs its resources to the areas of greatest need,” Mrs Mugo said.
However, she challenged the Fund to reduce red tape in its procedures, adding that it takes a lot of time for the funds to reach beneficiaries.
Kenya missed out on Round Nine of the funding last year — a Sh21 billion grant — putting the lives of thousands of Aids patients who rely on anti-retrovirals (ARVs) at risk.
Mrs Mugo was speaking in Nairobi at the start of a Global Fund meeting for East Africa and the Indian Ocean region.
At the meeting, sustainability of the ARV programme, particularly in Kenya, came under the spotlight.
More than 320,000 Aids patients in Kenya depend on the life-saving drugs, in a programme that is mainly supported by the Global Fund.
Competition
Medical Services permanent secretary James ole Kiyiapi blamed the lack of coordination among those involved in the war against Aids for the rejection of the funding proposal.
Ironically, competition for control of donor cash between the two Health ministries blocked the funding, causing shortages of essential drugs in most public hospitals.
On Monday, Mrs Mugo also asked the Treasury to increase the budget allocation to the health sector.