Africa: A Deadly Funding Crisis

This World AIDS Day on 1 Dec should have been a much more joyous event: the global response has turned a significant corner, with record numbers of people on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and fewer new HIV infections. But the announcement by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, cancelling its next funding round, has cast a shadow over any celebrations and highlighted the precarious nature of funding. Source