adminto the south and not the other way round.
State Department Global Aids Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby said governments should commit more resources to health to ensure affected people get care.
He commended the African Union saying that they have recommitted to the Abuja agreement where they agreed to commit 15 percent of their budgets to health.
He said the gains made so far by putting those infected on anti-retroviral treatment could easily be reversed if governments and partners slow down in their commitment towards the fight due to inadequate resources.
He added that the US is not reversing the move to scale down on PEPFAR funding as they want governments to start managing their HIV programmes not the other way round.
PEPFAR directly supported a total of 81 500 Zimbabweans through anti-retroviral treatment as at 30 September 2011.
“Funding will continue, but we do not want to become the ministry of health of countries. We want them to manage their own HIV programmes”, Ambassador Goosby said.
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