R2.82-billion. Thats What We Need To Plug The Us Funding Gap For Now
The national health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and tuberculosis TB projects in South Africa will end by September 30.
The department has calculated that it needs R2.82-billion to plug the gap for the rest of the financial year after the Trump administration cut more than half of such support to the country in February .
Without such replacement funds, we wont be able to sustain our HIV programme, warns the departments deputy director general for the countrys National Health Insurance NHI scheme, Nicholas Crisp.
But these funds have yet to be raised, and the stakes are high.
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The national health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and tuberculosis TB projects in South Africa will end by September 30 and has calculated that it needs R2.82-billion to plug the gap for the rest of the financial year after the Trump administration cut more than half of such support to the country in February .
The governments financial year runs from April 1 to March 31 .
Without such replacement funds, we wont be able to sustain our HIV programme, warns the departments deputy director general for the countrys National Health Insurance NHI scheme, Nicholas Crisp.
But these funds have yet to be raised, and the stakes are high: between 150 000 and 295 000 new HIV infections in addition to about 130 000 annual new HIV infections over the next four years, according to a Wits modelling study commissioned by the department.