Mr Obama, this is not the time to cut HIV/Aids funds

By Njoroge Kinuthia

Last week, President Barack Obama proposed a cut in the amount of money Kenya gets from the US to battle HIV/Aids. It is projected that this will lead to a drop of up to 44 per cent in State Department’s global health account for Kenya. The move comes hot on the heels of similarly depressing news from the Global Fund which announced during it’s tenth anniversary that it would not accept new grant requests until 2014 due to a serious financial shortfall.