The US will give $2.7 mil­lion dol­lars of the PEPFAR money to Kenya. PEPFAR is short for the President’s Emer­gency Plan for AIDS Relief. The PEPFAR pro­gram started by Pres­i­dent Bush and is under­go­ing some restruc­tur­ing under Pres­i­dent Obama. Over a mil­lion peo­ple are liv­ing with AIDS in Kenya.

From Reuters, reporter Jeremy Clarke descibes the need for AIDS fund­ing in Kenya.

The money, which is to be dis­persed over the next five years, rep­re­sents a 112 per­cent increase in fund­ing for the pro­gramme in Kenya, east Africa’s largest econ­omy. It is seen by the United States as an enhance­ment of a suc­cess­ful pro­gramme.
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“Kenya is now the biggest recip­i­ent of this pro­gramme in the world, more than South Africa,” U.S. Ambas­sador Michael Ran­neberger told reporters in Nairobi.

He said the agree­ment with Nairobi meant the gov­ern­ment was expected to increase direct bud­get sup­port for the fight against HIV/AIDS by a min­i­mum of 10 per­cent annu­ally.
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The pro­gramme will include car­ing for more than 550,000 orphans and vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren, as well as help­ing man­age other related co-infections such as Tuber­cu­lo­sis, Keny­atta said.

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 72 per­cent of the world’s AIDS-related deaths with 1.4 mil­lion last year, while an esti­mated 1.9 mil­lion peo­ple in the region were newly infected with HIV.

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