Sunday, April 26, 2009

HIV/Aids at centre of EU funding

ALL future projects funded in southern Africa by the European Union (EU) would have to have an HIV/Aids component, the European Commission has ordered.

In the face of what the commission called the “continued challenges posed” by HIV and Aids, 10 EU delegations to southern African countries met in Pretoria yesterday to re-evaluate EU-funding strategies to the region.

It was decided at the meeting that all EU commission funding, even that not directly related to health, would in future have an HIV/Aids component.

However, South Africa’s health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who addressed the meeting yesterday, urged the EU not to focus on a single disease.

“We have many diseases in Africa that somehow never get mentioned because we have become so one-disease focused,” she said.

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