The Monitor (Kampala)

Uganda: Country to Benefit From 50 Million Dollars Fund to Fight HIV/Aids

By Kakaire Kirunda, 4 August 2008

Uganda is set to benefit from a $50 million fund that has been set aside by Unitaid, the UN children agency (Unicef) and the World Health Organisation which is aimed at halting mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

Unitaid is an international financing facility committed to the scale-up of treatment and care for HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. The developments that will also see Central African Republic, China, Haiti, Lesotho, Myanmar, Nigeria, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe benefit were announced in a statement on Friday by the three agencies, ahead of the 17th International Aids Conference (Aids 2008) that started on August 3.

The President of the International Aids Society (organizers of Aids 2008), Dr Pedro Cahn later told a cross section of journalists that mother to child transmission would be one of the major highlights of the week long conference.

Tagged: Aid and Assistance, AIDS, East Africa, External Relations, Health, International Organisations, Uganda

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