America helps fund the South African government's initiatives to address the HIV/Aids pandemic.
JOHANNESBURG – Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says the government will send a team to the US following an announcement that Washington plans to cut funding for HIV/Aids treatment programmes.
Motsoaledi said that the announcement is not final at this stage. South Africa has the biggest HIV/Aids treatment plan in the world.Motsoaledi said that 80% of the HIV scheme is funded from SA's own fiscal and 20% from development partners, which includes the US's President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief .Motsoaledi added that it’s not only South Africa but for other countries too, including India.
“Anything that a development partner doesn’t fund you, you try to find it internally. So, wholly depends on us as South Africans, whether we believe in order to live Americans must do something. “But if we believe in order to live, we stand on our own, and then it means our own internal sources must do something about it.”
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