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George Snyman |
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Re: [pacanet] Discussion topic 1-2012: The Plight of church HIVinterventions inview of dwindling resources
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Jan 16th, 2012 - 10:33:46 |
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Hi Stephen!
THank you for the thoughtful email! Can you give me more detail on Pacanet
meetings this year?
George
Hands at Work in Africa
www.handsatwork.org
On 16 January 2012 16:51, Stephen Kasoma wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
>
> Happy new year to you and greetings from PACANet.
>
>
> Allow me to take this opportunity to thank you for the time you spared to
> participate in our discussions last year.
>
>
> This year, we are starting off with a topic to do with money. The current
> funding concern cuts across all HIV and AIDS interventions If you
> participated in the Pre-ICASA conference last year, you are probably
> familiar with this topic:
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> *
> *
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> *What is the plight of church HIV interventions in view of dwindling
> resources?* *Can and will they survive? (**Bishop Joshua HK Banda**)*
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> * *
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> * *
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> We have decided to bring this topic to this forum because 1, we think it is
> crucial and 2, there may not have been enough time to discuss it fully
> during the Pre-ICASA conference in Addis Ababa, yet still, not all of us
> were there. Therefore this is our opportunity to participate.
>
>
> *Introduction (From Bishop Bandas paper)*
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> *
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> *In a report (April 2011) on sustainable financing for AIDS in Zambia,
> Lievens et al[1] observed that up until recently, scarcity of
> resources was not a priority in the global AIDS Policy fora. In a direct
> reference to former Executive Director of the United Nations prime AIDS
> Agency (UNAIDS) Dr. Peter Piots comments (2008), the report noted that
> **
> exceptionalism** was successfully defended on multiple grounds, adding
> that in a breach of conventional thinking about sustainable financing for
> development, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis Call
> for Proposals for example noted: applicants are not required to
> demonstrate financial self-sufficiency for the targeted interventions by
> the end of the proposal term.[2] *
>
> *
> *
>
> *However, things have changed significantly. More and more, the question of
> sustainable funding for the HIV pandemic has taken **centre stage **at many
> AIDS fora particularly, ever since the dawn of the global economic down
> turn of 2008. Ironically though, In 2008 itself, US$ 15.6 billion was spent
> on AIDS programs in low and middle income countries, up from US$ 7.9
> billion three years earlier.[3] *
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> *
> *
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> *Looking back, during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Lievens, et al
> reported that a global political momentum to end poverty gave rise to two
> ambitious ventures, of international development assistance: The Millennium
> Development Project which devotes one goal specifically to HIV and AIDS,
> and the Global to fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis was set up with a
> single purpose to make progress on three of the most important public
> health crises worldwide.[4] It goes without saying that the global
> fight against AIDS gained a new impetus from that time on, re-positioning
> governments and civil society alike in a mode of meeting agreed milestones
> and targets by the 2015. As this deadline nears, the anxiety over financial
> resources is growing. It is an opportune moment for people of faith to stop
> and explore the plight of Church interventions and whether or not they will
> survive the impending season of dwindling AIDS money. *
>
>
> And now, back to the big question where we all need to make our input:
>
> *
> *
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> *What is the plight of church HIV interventions in view of dwindling
> resources?* *Can and will they survive?*
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> * *
>
> *What should church interventions do to survive?*
>
> * *
>
> *Stephen Kasoma*
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>
> [1] Lievens, Tomas; Kardan, Andrew; Humphrey, Ed; Roe, Alan:
> Sustainable financing for AIDS in Zambia- A forward looking assessment of
> the AIDS financing gap. Oxford Policy Management, Oxford, UK
>
> [2] Ibid
>
> [3] AIDS Financing Health Affairs- Volume 28, Number 61579
>
> [4] Ibid
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