Kenya: Obama reduces Aids funds in 2013 budget

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Obama reduces Aids funds in 2013 budget

Photo/FILE Financing for programmes including President Obama's Emergency Plan

for Aids Relief (Pepfar) would fall from Sh4.1 billion ($499 million) in the

2011 financial year to Sh2.2 billion ($277 million) in 2013.

By KEVIN J KELLEY Nation Correspondent in New York

Posted Tuesday, February 14 2012 at 22:30

US President Barack Obama has proposed a cut in the amount of money Kenya

receives to fight Aids.

Budget proposals released on Monday show a projected 44 per cent drop in the

State Department's global health account for Kenya.

Financing for programmes including the President's Emergency Plan for Aids

Relief (Pepfar) would fall from Sh4.1 billion ($499 million) in the 2011

financial year to Sh2.2 billion ($277 million) in 2013. (READ: Kenya battles

huge funding gap in Aids treatment plans)

Ambassador Goosby, the US global Aids coordinator, defended Mr Obama's

Pepfar budget for Kenya in a State Department blog posting on Monday.

" Kenya is an example of a mature programme. We are thus able to adjust its

funding to match its capacity to absorb funds through new mechanisms, " Mr Goosby

wrote.

He further explained that purchases of cheaper generic drugs and greater

reliance on local medical personnel in Pepfar recipient countries have

" dramatically decreased the per-patient cost of providing treatment and other

services. "

" We have reduced Pepfar treatment costs from $1,100 to $335 per person, " Mr

Goosby said.

President Obama's budget package also proposes an increase in US development

funding for Kenya from $76 million in 2011 to $93 million in 2013.

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Tanzania's Pepfar's allocation has risen from $336 to $344 million. Uganda's

funding has declined by 9 per cent to $281 million.

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Submitted by MsichanaNYC

I love President Obama. I wish Kenyan leaders would follow his example.

Kenya is a resourceful country with a lot of potential. We need to stop

stretching our hand out begging for aid and start working to support and sustain

our country. Even have more and give aid to less blessed countries. Corruption

has to end first.

I have believe that Bush the 43rd was more committed to Africa than Obama.

The diffrence is factual and personal. You see..Obama's work in Africa is a

duty. He has to do it as president of the US. With Bush, it wasn't that. His

experience touched and hit him hard. It became personal. He didnt care if he got

credit so long as he was saving lives. It turned his complete thinking of the

conservative values. Remember the compassionate conservatism.Thats the sad and

suprising diffrence especially because it turns the conventional wisdom upside

down.

Posted February 15, 2012 04:40 AM

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Obama reduces Aids funds in 2013 budget

Photo/FILE Financing for programmes including President Obama's Emergency Plan

for Aids Relief (Pepfar) would fall from Sh4.1 billion ($499 million) in the

2011 financial year to Sh2.2 billion ($277 million) in 2013.

By KEVIN J KELLEY Nation Correspondent in New York

Posted Tuesday, February 14 2012 at 22:30

US President Barack Obama has proposed a cut in the amount of money Kenya

receives to fight Aids.

Budget proposals released on Monday show a projected 44 per cent drop in the

State Department's global health account for Kenya.

Financing for programmes including the President's Emergency Plan for Aids

Relief (Pepfar) would fall from Sh4.1 billion ($499 million) in the 2011

financial year to Sh2.2 billion ($277 million) in 2013. (READ: Kenya battles

huge funding gap in Aids treatment plans)

Ambassador Goosby, the US global Aids coordinator, defended Mr Obama's

Pepfar budget for Kenya in a State Department blog posting on Monday.

" Kenya is an example of a mature programme. We are thus able to adjust its

funding to match its capacity to absorb funds through new mechanisms, " Mr Goosby

wrote.

He further explained that purchases of cheaper generic drugs and greater

reliance on local medical personnel in Pepfar recipient countries have

" dramatically decreased the per-patient cost of providing treatment and other

services. "

" We have reduced Pepfar treatment costs from $1,100 to $335 per person, " Mr

Goosby said.

President Obama's budget package also proposes an increase in US development

funding for Kenya from $76 million in 2011 to $93 million in 2013.

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Tanzania's Pepfar's allocation has risen from $336 to $344 million. Uganda's

funding has declined by 9 per cent to $281 million.

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Submitted by MsichanaNYC

I love President Obama. I wish Kenyan leaders would follow his example.

Kenya is a resourceful country with a lot of potential. We need to stop

stretching our hand out begging for aid and start working to support and sustain

our country. Even have more and give aid to less blessed countries. Corruption

has to end first.

I have believe that Bush the 43rd was more committed to Africa than Obama.

The diffrence is factual and personal. You see..Obama's work in Africa is a

duty. He has to do it as president of the US. With Bush, it wasn't that. His

experience touched and hit him hard. It became personal. He didnt care if he got

credit so long as he was saving lives. It turned his complete thinking of the

conservative values. Remember the compassionate conservatism.Thats the sad and

suprising diffrence especially because it turns the conventional wisdom upside

down.

Posted February 15, 2012 04:40 AM

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Obama+reduces+Aids+funds+in+2013+budget+/-/1056/132\

7808/-/uopa35/-/index.html