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HIV and Aids patients in great danger
29 Mar 2016 at 14:53hrs | Views
HIV and Aids patients are in great danger if international donors pull out, a senior health expert warned.
Addressing journalists at a National Aids Council (Nac) workshop, Natpharm's representative Godfrey Tirivanhu described the situation that would prevail if the country's major healthcare donors pulled out as "scary".
"If somebody pulls out we will fall in our faces and when we are talking about people's health it's frightening," Tirivanhu said.
Tirivanhu allayed fears of the "worst" saying "Donors love this country so the likelihood of donors pulling out is not feasible".
Officials said even if all the money collected from the Aids levy was to be channelled towards drug purchasing the stocks would only last four months and will not include opportunistic infections.
Zimbabwe has depended on donors to fund its health programmes but the introduction of an Aids Levy on all workers provided Nac with another source of funding particularly for HIV treatment, albeit on a small scale.
Addressing journalists at a National Aids Council (Nac) workshop, Natpharm's representative Godfrey Tirivanhu described the situation that would prevail if the country's major healthcare donors pulled out as "scary".
"If somebody pulls out we will fall in our faces and when we are talking about people's health it's frightening," Tirivanhu said.
Tirivanhu allayed fears of the "worst" saying "Donors love this country so the likelihood of donors pulling out is not feasible".
Officials said even if all the money collected from the Aids levy was to be channelled towards drug purchasing the stocks would only last four months and will not include opportunistic infections.
Zimbabwe has depended on donors to fund its health programmes but the introduction of an Aids Levy on all workers provided Nac with another source of funding particularly for HIV treatment, albeit on a small scale.
Source - Daily News
