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Integrated Regional Information Networks - November 29, 2005
"The grant will support improved accessibility to health care and strengthened quality of health care delivery in six of Rwanda's 12 provinces, targeting 4.7 million Rwandans," according to a statement issued by the Global Fund during an East Africa and the Indian Ocean regional meeting in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
The grant for the first two-year phase is worth $14.3 million, the fund said. The remaining money, if approved, would be spent within five years.
The fund is a global public-private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. It is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities. The fund works in collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral organisations to supplement existing efforts dealing with the three diseases.
The Fund said Rwanda was one of the most successful implementers of its grants.
"Earlier this year the first of Rwanda's grants to be evaluated after its first two years was approved for continued funding with grant performance measures yielding greater than 100 percent success rates against targets in all 11 of the grant's service delivery areas," the fund said.
"In particular, this grant to combat HIV/tuberculosis co-infection extended access to AIDS drugs to more than 4,000 people in 18 months, or more than twice the number set as a target for the grant's first phase," it added.
The fund has so far committed $4.4 billion in 128 countries for projects designed to help combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Together, the diseases kill at least six million people each year.
However, the UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, said on Monday at the meeting in Kigali that donors were not committing the money that the Global Fund needed. For its programmes in 2006 to 2007, donors have so far provided only half of the money, or around $3.6 billion.
"There's a steadily diminishing lack of commitment on the part of the world to release money for the Global Fund," Lewis said. "It is a catastrophe for Africa."
An estimated 26 million people in Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS.
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
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