Health Ministry wants to integrate HIV treatment into SHA as USAID funding disrupted

The Ministry of Health has recommended an increase in its budget to support the integration of essential HIV test kits, drugs and condoms into the Social Health Authority (SHA) insurance scheme to cover shortfalls due to frozen funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The ministry said this would ensure continuity in HIV management programmes, amid the uncertainty of a move by US President Donald Trump to suspend funding through USAID.