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Fund to fight disease open for business again
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria estimates that more than $1.6 billion (R12.7 bn) in additional funding will be available in the next two years.Health Department to spend five times more on research
The Health Department will spend 2 percent of the national health budget to fund research within the next three years.IN THE NEWS: Budget cuts risk Aids health gains
The third Global Health Watch report shows that health financing, including dwindling support for Aids, is one of the challenges facing global health.IN THE NEWS: Health spending gap narrowing
The gap between South African public and private health expenditure is narrowing as the public sector plays catch up. Public spending is expected to exceed private sector spending in the future, the 2011 South Africa health review released yesterday showed.Fight for funding continues
The funding saga involving the administration of money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria by the Department of Health (DoH) is in the spotlight once again, with recipients like the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Soul City feeling the pinch.
An article in The Star reports that payments, which were due to organisations in July 2011 and January 2012, have not materialised. Organisations are appealing to the Department of Health to intervene as the threat of closure and job losses looms.
Global Fund financial crisis and excuses!
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria finds itself in quite the jam, as it apparently faces imminent cuts in funding.TAC faces closure due to cash-flow woes
According to today’s (Thursday’s) news reports, the legendary Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) might be forced to close its doors come the New Year because of cash-flow problems.
The organisation says that maladministration of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria money by the Department of Health is the root of the problem.
Withdrawal of donor funding starting to show?
While Archbishop Desmond Tutu laments anticipated cuts in donor funding for HIV in a piece published by The Star, a TNA article indicates that the situation might be becoming a reality.
A substantial piece published in The Verve section of The Star sees Archbishop Desmond Tutu appealing to the US donors to keep up the cash flow.
Provincial funding fiasco
An article in yesterday’s The Times has reports that “corruption and incompetence” are standing in the way of efficiently spending HIV grants.
Mpumalanga province has been implicated in the under spending of money for HIV grants, having spent only R81-million of its budget which amounts to a whopping R134-million.
