Servaas van den Bosch
22 June 2009
interview
Windhoek — What started as a multi-billion dollar tsunami against HIV/AIDS during the presidency of George W. Bush has trickled down to a carefully channelled stream of funding under president Barack Obama. Instead of the additional billion dollars a year promised for AIDS funding, Congress approved a meagre $165 million increase for 2010.
At the annual HIV/AIDS Implementer's Meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, held Jun. 10-14, global AIDS coordinator of the President's Emergency Fund for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), Tom Walsh looked for a way to cut costs in Southern Africa and still keep the pressing commitment to the two million HIV-positive Southern Africans for whom PEPFAR is financing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
IPS: In 2008, the U.S. Congress approved an increase in PEPFAR funding from $15 billion in the period from 2004 to 2008 to $48 billion in the period from 2009 to 2013. That translates to almost $10 billion a year. However, the budget for 2010 stays stagnant at $6.1 billion. Why?
Thomas Walsh: The global financial crisis is affecting our budget. Although there's a $165 million increase to $6.1 billion for 2010, we will definitely not be able to grow as exponentially as before.
Anyone we put on antiretroviral treatment will stay on. But otherwise, we don't yet really know what the impact of this is until we finish the calculations.
We might have to be more selective. In that case, orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) living with HIV/AIDS will be a first priority. We also will have to work more efficiently.
IPS: Where do you intend to cut costs?
TW: A lot of money can be saved by governments and partner organisations that receive PEPFAR funds, for instance through cutting overheads, but also by changing national policies.
It's unnecessary that every medical intervention, such as prescribing ARVs, involves a physician with a relatively high salary. A lot of work can be done by nurses or trained community members.
Or, take for example South Africa's law that prohibits the registration of generic ARVs. If such laws are overturned, drug procurement will become much cheaper. Since PEPFAR funds many of these activities directly or indirectly, it will save us money.
IPS: PEPFAR has been criticised for its emphasis on abstinence and faithfulness. Has this approach failed in Southern Africa?
TW: I don't think you can argue that abstinence is not effective against infection or that married men shouldn't be faithful. It's obvious that having multiple partners is a catalyst for spreading HIV. It's really necessary to reign in that kind of behaviour.
Condoms can be effective, but they are only 90 percent effective.
The 2008 Act [Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorisation Act of 2008] that governs the second phase of PEPFAR requires us to spend up to a third of our budget for prevention on promoting abstinence and faithfulness.
But we have also realised that we need to be more flexible in this approach. Epidemics vary per country, and in some places better results are reached with providing condoms on a wide scale.
What we will not do is hand out condoms to learners under the age of 14. We don't think that's for us. But there are other organisations that do this.
IPS: What Is PEPFAR's budget for prevention, and how is it calculated?
TW: Prevention is 29 percent of our total budget. Universal access to treatment is great, but it means more people with HIV/AIDS will keep on living.
Moreover, the reservoir of chronically-ill people requiring treatment is constantly fuelled by the extremely high rates of HIV infection in the SADC [Southern African Development Community] region. It's obvious that the costs for the health systems will become unbearable at some point.
IPS: Why is PEPFAR present in some SADC countries and almost absent in others that are equally or more affected by HIV?
TW: We have realised that, epidemiologically speaking, this doesn't make sense. In Lesotho and Swaziland, PEPFAR was absent because of a lack of US personnel on the ground. In Zimbabwe, I figure there was too much political uncertainty.
PEPFAR is moving to a different way of operating where we sign comprehensive frameworks with existing and new partners. These include agreements on good governance, policy reform and financial commitments.
Malawi and Swaziland have just signed one. Lesotho will follow soon and Zimbabwe's power-sharing agreement has also made it eligible for assistance.
IPS: Organisations that receive PEPFAR funding have to publicly denounce prostitution. Why?
TW: It's because the US government does not want to fund organisations that promote the legalisation of prostitution. It doesn't mean recipients can't address the needs of commercial sex-worker populations when it comes to HIV/AIDS. They can and they should.
The pledge is part of the law that governs us, but I agree it's controversial. Is it enforced by PEPFAR? Let me say this, we cannot give you money without that signature on the dotted line, but there is no further inquiry from our side.
IPS: What have been PEPFAR's key successes in Southern Africa?
TW: In the past five years, we exceeded our targets, put 2.1 million people on ARVs and provided support for ten million infected and affected people, including OVCs, mostly in Africa.
The president has granted an extension until 2014, but after that anything is possible. We need to focus now on strengthening healthcare systems, not just dropping pills on parachutes in peoples' waiting open mouths. That also means that it's unacceptable if health budgets of countries that we support stay stagnant.
It will not be easy to turn this pandemic around, modifying human behaviour never is, and some cultural practices have been around a lot longer than AIDS.
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Wake Up Black Africans They ( D-Evil ) Want Us Dead !
They Want Our Resources !
They are being used like puppets by D - Evil !
HIV Aids - INVENTING THE AIDS VIRUS BY DR. PETER DUESBERG In his book he states that the so-called drug AZT was developed to kill T-Cells. T-Cells are what our bones need to make marrow.
Don't buy the hype..there is no AIDS!!!
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Virologist Dr. Peter Duesberg emerged as one of the scientific community’s brightest talents when he discovered the viral gene that can cause cancer. This program examines his research and his controversial stance on AIDS that nearly destroyed his career
Medical Genocide Slow & Hidden.
Check Out This Directive : Called The Georgia GuideStones
[The Agenda Of The Antichrist aka The Georgia Guidestones] 10 POINTS LIKE THE 10 HORNS OR RELIGIONS OF THE BEAST
1) MAINTAIN HUMANITY'S POPULATION UNDER 500 MILLION IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE
2) GUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY —IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY
3) UNITE HUMANITY WITH A LIVING NEW LANGUAGE
4) RULE PASSION — FAITH — TRADITION AND ALL THINGS WITH TEMPERED REASON
5) PROTECT PEOPLE AND NATIONS WITH FAIR LAWS AND JUST COURTS
6) LET ALL NATIONS RULE INTERNALLY RESOLVING EXTERNAL DISPUTES IN A WORLD COURT
7) AVOID PETTY LAWS AND USELESS OFFICIALS
8) BALANCE PERSONAL RIGHTS WITH SOCIAL DUTIES.
9) PRIZE TRUTH — BEAUTY — LOVE — SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE INFINITE
10) BE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTH — LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE — LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE
#2- Here is evidence of Point 2 of the Georgia Guidestones on Reproduction .
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Jesus Christ said “ Except those days (of tribulation) be shortened , no flesh should be save “. There are sinister forces at work, especially in Black Africa, trying to destroy us by HOOK or CROOK.
BY HOOK - Dr. Boyd E. Graves discovered the existence of a U.S. government- manufactured killing virus designed to kill Black People. It is called AIDS.
1. This manufactured AIDS has a cure that the persons who developed it hold the patent on.
2. Just Search using Dr. Boyd E Graves as a search word.
BY CROOK – Dr. Peter Duesberg discovered that another form of AIDS was actually old diseases like pneumonia ( and other common diseases) which was renamed AIDS.
1. This so-called form of AIDS actually doesn’t exist.
2. But since the persons falsely-diagnosed to have this imaginary form of AIDS are treated with drugs like AZT , they tend to die from. The treatment.
3. AZT was developed in 1958. It was developed to kill T-cells ; our source of life (the marrow in our bones ).
4. Also Search using Dr.Peter Duesberg , author of “Inventing The Aids Virus “
SO BEWARE OF THE AIDS GAME WITH YOUR LIFE AT STAKE.
And in the LAST DAYS, when sin is running rampant in the land, a FIERCE-LOOKING WISE KING shall come into power.
And his power shall be mighty. However The power he will have WILL NOT BE HIS OWN POWER.
And THROUGH HIS POLICY HE SHALL CAUSE WITCHCRAFT TO PROSPER.
And he shall magnify himself AND BY PEACE SHALL HE DESTROY MANY.
He shall also stand up againt Jesus Christ, but HE SHALL BE DESTROY by the brightness of Christ’s return.
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Many Of You Are Fulfilling Prophecy In A Sad, Foolish, Naïve Way. REVELATIONS 18 :23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your SORCERIES were all nations TRICKED .. AZT is the star of the AIDS death show..and many doctors are being tricked and bribed by the $$$$ !!!!
THE AIDS HOAX PART 1- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 2- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 3- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 4- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 5- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 6- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 7- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 8- MUST SEE
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Many Of You Are Fulfilling Prophecy In A Sad, Foolish, Naïve Way. REVELATIONS 18 :23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your SORCERIES were all nations TRICKED .. AZT is the star of the AIDS death show..and many doctors are being tricked and bribed by the $$$$ !!!!
THE AIDS HOAX PART 9- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 10- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 11- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 12- MUST SEE
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THE AIDS HOAX PART 13- MUST SEE
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Peter Duesberg: science vs."hiv/aids"
[ Peter Duesberg On AIDS Hoax ]
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The HIV Virus AIDS Lie - HIV DOES NOT CAUSE AIDS
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The military-medical complex : Starring AIDS Co-Starring CANCER
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[WHO'S AFRAID OF BEING THEMSELVES ALL THE TIME ? ]
[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]
Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.
We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?
Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.
Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.
There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.
We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.
We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.
It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.
And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.
And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others
- Marianne Williamson -
[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]
(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )
God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .
God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.
From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.
Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.
[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]
WAKE UP !!! STAY UP !!!
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