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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