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AIDS money lost due to political problems

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe has again been sidelined from receiving major financial support for HIV/AIDS intervention initiatives because of its current political problems.

    It was the only southern African country not short-listed to benefit from the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative, spearheaded by former US president Bill Clinton.

    A local newspaper, The Standard, quoted the coordinator of the Zimbabwe Activists on HIV and AIDS (ZAHA), Believe Dhliwayo, as saying: "We were told that we can kiss goodbye to the Clinton initiative funding, along with other affiliated programmes, if the state of the country's politics persists like this."

    Concerns about Zimbabwe's political decline were also raised by other independent international donors during the recent World Social Forum (WSF) conference held in Mumbai, India.

    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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