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Zimbabwe Sees Increased Flow of Funds For HIV-AIDS Care
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Most of $64 million in monies from Global Fund to Fight AIDS coming to
Zimbabwe will go to purchase of anti-retroviral drugs - now available
to a relative handful of patients The many Zimbabweans who are living
and struggling with HIV-AIDS had some good news this week: the country
is soon to receive $64 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria, that was awarded in its fifth grant round.

Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said Sunday that the funds will
mainly go to the acquisition of life-saving anti-retroviral drugs and
prevention programs. Around one in five Zimbabwean adults are HIV
positive; while the prevalence rate has declined in the past few years
from one in four, AIDS kills some 3,000 Zimbabweans each month.

Only a fraction of Zimbabweans fighting AIDS have access to
anti-retroviral drugs.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s Country Coordinating Mechanism – a panel of
state officials and nongovernmental organization representatives which
prepares fund applications and administers grants - is now putting the
final touches on another application.

Reporter Carole Gombakomba of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe spoke with
HIV-AIDS activist Lyndie Francis, director of a Harare treatment
facility called The Center and a member of Zimbabwe's CCM, about the
incoming grant and funding pipeline.

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