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Agreements signed for Global Fund millions

    JOHANNESBURG

    Mozambique has signed four grant agreements totalling US $51 million over two years with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

    The money was approved as part of the fund's second round of grant proposals and includes $30 million for HIV/AIDS programmes. Existing government, community and NGO initiatives, such as peer education, health care worker training, condom promotion and distribution, voluntary counselling and testing and home-based care will be expanded.

    Global Fund executive director Richard Feachem said in a statement: "These grants are a crucial step forward for Mozambique. The government is visibly committed to a comprehensive approach to fighting all three diseases - these grants will support the necessary infrastructure to implement their national strategy, with the involvement of the communities concerned."

    Mozambique has been hard hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with an estimated prevalence rate of 14 percent and some 60,000 AIDS orphans.

    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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