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AIDS Defies Funding and Good Intentions
12 September 2004
By John Murphy
...In a country of 1.2 million people where blackouts are common and thousands of families still brighten their nights with candles, it's a good question, one that AIDS advocates here say the Swaziland government should have asked before deciding to commit millions of dollars in international aid to the computer system.
Even before they are brought online, the computers are being dismissed by some critics as a waste, the latest example of the Swaziland government's misguided, if well-meaning, efforts to fight AIDS.
After years of clamoring for money for treatment and care of its AIDS victims, Swaziland, like many African nations, is suddenly awash in millions of dollars from the United Nations, the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Last year, the Global Fund, a financing partnership of governments, private donors and civil society, awarded Swaziland $30 million - equal to more than half the country's overall health budget - for the country's AIDS projects, including providing AIDS treatment for free.
Copyright 2004, The Baltimore Sun
For the Full Article, go to:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.swaziland12sep12,1,1335094.story
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 13 September 2004
Africa : Swaziland
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