An invisible issue? AIDS in Afghanistan
As people around the world concentrate on HIV/AIDS - today is World AIDS Day - it's hard to know where to focus here in Afghanistan. We just don't know much at all about the scale of the problem. Data for …
A paradox - too little money but too many donors
Mozambique is known as a 'donor darling', in that there are lots of agencies that flock to work here, which is a reflection of both the level of need and on good performance by the government improving the enabling environment …
Testing times
One of the events associated with World AIDS Day each year is the launch of the UNAIDS report on monitoring the global epidemic. In this report UNAIDS use all the available data to summarise trends in HIV prevalence throughout the …
Do donors respond to national priorities, or try to set them?
On this World AIDS Day, I want to turn attention to the crucial role of donor funding in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In a previous post, I mentioned the pleasures of working in Mozambique including working with very committed people …
Delivering better health services needs longer term, more predictable financing
Earlier today I met with Mauricio Cysne, the Country Representative of UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) here in Mozambique. Mauricio is a dynamic person, full of energy and a great networker. We discussed what to do to try to …
Will Mozambique ever get the health system its population deserves?
In the run up to World AIDS Day - Katie and I, the human development and HIV/AIDS advisers here in DFID Mozambique, thought it would be good to focus on a few of the problems facing Mozambique. Mozambique faces an …
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