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Original Post Date: 2010-07-30 Time: 19:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
The following letter was written by U.S. Ambassador to the Zimbabwe Charles Ray.
Aids is a global problem. UNAIDS estimates that globally over 33 million people are currently living with HIV and 25 million people have died of HIV-related causes.
The impact of this disease is particularly acute in low and middle-income countries, where 97 percent of those living with HIV currently reside.
HIV and Aids mainly affects people during their most productive years, with over half of new infections in people under age 25. It affects not just the health of the infected individual, but households, communities, and prospects for economic development and growth.
The United States government is committed to the fight against global Aids, and it is the central piece of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and global health agenda.
More than half the international assistance from donor governments to fight Aids comes from the United States. Our commitment is strong and enduring. President Obama believes that this is not only in keeping with our core values as a nation, but it is in our common security interest to be the vanguard in helping to save lives and to relieve the suffering caused by this dreaded disease, especially among the world’s poorest people.
Our approach to this effort is comprehensive, and is aimed at strengthening the capacity of national health systems around the world to provide effective services to their populations.
In addition to the fight against HIV and Aids, for which the budget has been increased, and with increases requested for the coming years, our support includes efforts to combat opportunistic infections, improve maternal and child health services to prevent infant infections, and improve food security so that people receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) treatments can benefit from the medication. We are also supporting and encouraging programmes to prevent the spread of HIV and improve the overall health of people in low- and middle-income countries.
Here in Zimbabwe, we continue to increase our contribution of ARV drugs, with an increase in fiscal year 2010 to 59 000, up from 40 000 the previous fiscal year. The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief programme investment here has nearly doubled to US$47,5 million this year from approximately US$26 million in the previous year. In addition, we have received an additional US$20 million this year as part of President Obama’s pledge to assist Zimbabwe, and we anticipate that it will continue to expand as long as there is a need.
A key characteristic of our HIV and Aids programme here is that it is in accord with the government’s national health plan. That means that while we provide assistance, the determination of need, and where it is best applied, is made by the Government of Zimbabwe through the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare. Thus, our assistance not only helps those who are most needy, but contributes to the development of capacity of the national health delivery system.
The fight against HIV and Aids is a war that the world cannot afford to lose. The government and people of the United States will remain in the trenches with the valiant doctors, nurses, and other health practitioners for as long as it takes to defeat this implacable enemy of all humanity.
Charles A. Ray,
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe
Original date published: 30 July 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201007300901.html?viewall=1