Africa: HIV/Aids Financing - Africa at Make or Break it Point

Efforts to combat HIV in sub Saharan Africa are under serious threat because of a massive funding crisis at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Last week, scientists, health professionals and policy makers gathered at the International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to take stock of the AIDS pandemic that continues to ravage the continent. WINIFRED OGBEBO who was at the event reports that resource gaps Source