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New health rules throw Kenya’s Aids budget into distress
A sample of antiretrovirals. Financing treatment in Kenya is expected to be complicated by the WHO’s recommendation that a key drug be withdrawn from the market. Photo/FILE
By BEATRICE GACHENGE
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Posted Monday, December 21 2009 at 00:00
Posted Monday, December 21 2009 at 00:00
This means that the 15 countries that receive PEPfAR funds including Kenya will see no increase on their budget.
“Health is not a priority for the government as it is highly dependent on donor finding. The major risk Kenya faces with such a model is that we are left venerable at such a time when the global crisis has threatened such funding,” said Eve Odete, Pan Africa Policy Officer- Social Justice, Oxfam GB.
Analysts say PEPfAR has been affected due to other hard pressing priorities for the American government.
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