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Positive negotiations on AIDS money

    JOHANNESBURG

    The financial management systems of Namibia's Ministry of Health will have to undergo an audit before a Global AIDS Fund grant can be released.

    The local Fund agent, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) has been appointed to undertake the assessment, which is expected to be completed in two to three months.

    However, ministry under-secretary, Dr Norbert Forster, told local newspaper The Namibian that negotiations with the Fund to release the US $133 million grant were progressing well.

    "We have just received official communication that all three of our components have now been finally approved. This is after the Fund had various queries to which we had to come up with satisfactory answers," Forster said.

    Once the money becomes available, some 13,000 HIV-positive Namibians will be able to access HIV/AIDS drugs through the country's 35 state hospitals, by the end of 2006.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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