12 African Countries to Get Aid From OPEC to Fight HIV/AIDS

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12 African Countries to Get Aid From OPEC to Fight HIV/AIDS

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Uganda and 11 other African countries will receive a grant of 8.1 million U.S. dollars from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to fight HIV/AIDS, local media of Kampala reported on Wednesday.

OPEC has earmarked the amount to be spent through the World Health Organization (WHO) projects in the beneficiary countries, aWHO statement was quoted as saying.

The 12 African countries are Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Togo, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda.

The money is to be drawn from the HIV/AIDS account of the OPEC International Fund for Development, established in June 2001.

The fund supports projects aimed at scaling up prevention, increasing support and care to people living with HIV/AIDS and reducing countries vulnerability to the disease.

The WHO director general Gro Harlem Brundtland said countries like Uganda and Senegal had demonstrated that the HIV epidemic could be controlled.

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