[Viva] Fwd: Kenya Protests PEPFAR Cuts

[Margarite Sanchez]

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Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Subject: Kenya Protests PEPFAR Cuts
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Kenya Advocates Protest
PEPFAR Cuts & Treatment
Shortfalls While $500 Million Unspent

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a prelude to what promises to be a hot issue this July at the International
AIDS Conference in Washington DC, hundreds of activists marched in Nairobi,
Kenya on April 25th to protest potential cuts to the country’s AIDS
funding.

Recent reports suggest that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR) has $1.46 billion in unspent funds, with $500 million unspent in
Kenya. These funds were originally appropriated to provide lifesaving
treatment and services to people living with HIV. Now the unspent money is
at risk of being transferred elsewhere or cut altogether.

Earlier this week a coalition of civil society organizations delivered a
memorandum to the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, Scott Gration, demanding that
unspent funds be invested into scale-up of treatment in Kenya. The
signatories of the memorandum included: the National Empowerment Network of
People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF),
AIDS Law Project – Kenya, Dandora AIDS Support Group, Health GAP, Kenya
Network of Women with AIDS and ITPC, among many others. The coalition also
delivered messages to the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the Federal
Government.

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Dr. Mina Nakawuka, AHF East/West Africa Advocacy Manager, addressing the
media.

This revelation comes at a time when only about 30% of HIV positive Kenyans
in need of lifesaving antiretroviral treatment are receiving it. The
Country Operational Plan that is currently being reviewed by PEPFAR
Headquarters in Washington does not call for more accelerated treatment
enrollment, even though millions of dollars are sitting unspent.

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