Moz gets funding for Aids
2007-03-01 16:30
Maputo - More than R654 000 will be used this year to combat the HIV/Aids pandemic in Mozambique and to assist victims in Maputo, Vista News reported on Thursday.
This was revealed by the Maputo Provincial Association HIV/Aids Combating Organisation in an interview with Radio Mozambique.
Samuel Quive, the co-ordinator of the association said the money would be used to finance 57 organisations set up to mitigate the impact of the disease in the capital.
Quive said the allocation was an increase from R210 000 used to finance 92 projects in the city of more than three million people.
Out of the national HIV/Aids prevalence rate of about 16%, the city of Maputo is among the centres with the highest figures of contamination in the country with a prevalence rate of between 18% and 27%.
According to the ministry of health 56% of HIV/Aids patients who are on Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatment live in the city of Maputo.
- SAPA