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Facebook Twitter * Home * Politics * Business * Investigation * Opinion * Magazine * Education * Health * Regional * Sports Search 20.2 C Kampala Facebook Instagram Linkedin Twitter * Home * Latest * Politics * World * Africa * Regional * Opinions * Our Take * Money * Sports * Arts * Gossip * Health * Travel * Entertainment * Magazine Search * About us * Our Staff * History * Employment Opportunities * Contact Us * Privacy Policy * Eagle Online Search NewsAfrica DEBT CRISIS IS CHOKING SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, LEAVING HEALTH AND HIV SERVICES CHRONICALLY UNDERFUNDED-UNAIDS REPORT By Our Reporter September 20, 2024 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp MUST READ KAWEMPE NORTH MP MUHAMMAD SSEGIRINYA HAS PASSED AWAY January 9, 2025 URA POSTS SHS 322 BILLION REVENUE SURPLUS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR January 8, 2025 HAJAT SHARIFAH BUZEKI APPOINTED KCCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR December 26, 2024 KIZZA BESIGYE PENS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE OF HOPE AND JUSTICE FROM LUZIRA PRISON December 23, 2024 Our Reporterhttps://eagle.co.ug Growing public debt is choking sub-Saharan African countries, leaving them with little fiscal room to finance health and critical HIV services. A new report by UNAIDS, Domestic revenues, debt relief and development aid: Transformative pathways for ending AIDS by 2030 Eastern and Southern Africa | Western and Central Africa, shows that the debt crisis is putting in jeopardy progress made towards ending AIDS. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for the largest number of people living with HIV, with more than 25.9 million people of the 39.9 million living with HIV globally. The region’s success in having reduced new HIV infections by 56% since 2010 will not be sustained if fiscal space is constrained. The report, released ahead of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, shows that the combination of growing public debt payments and spending cuts set out in International Monetary Fund agreements in the next three to five years will, if unaddressed, leave countries dangerously underresourced to fund their HIV responses. “When countries cannot effectively look after the health care needs of their people because of debt payments, global health security is put at risk,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima. “Public debt needs to be urgently reduced and domestic resource mobilization strengthened to enable the fiscal space to fully fund the global HIV response and end AIDS,” she said. “World leaders cannot let a resource crunch derail global progress to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030,” said Byanyima. Debt servicing now exceeds 50% of government revenues in Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. Even after debt relief measures, Zambia will still be paying two-thirds of its budget on debt servicing between 2024 and 2026. There has been a noted decline in HIV response spending since 2017 in Western and Central Africa, from 0.3% of GDP in 2017 to just 0.12% in 2022. Western and Central Africa will need to mobilize $4.18 billion to fully fund the HIV response in 2024. This will climb to $7.9 billion by 2030 unless efforts are scaled up today to stop new HIV infections. While $20.8 billion was available for the HIV response in 2022 in low and middle-income countries through both domestic and international sources, this funding was not enough to sufficiently finance the HIV response. Western and Central Africa, for example, had a funding shortfall of 32% in 2022. In 2024 alone, Eastern and Southern Africa will need to mobilize almost $12 billion to fully fund the HIV response. This amount will climb to around $17 billion by 2030 unless new HIV infections are reduced. To enable increased domestic resource mobilization for countries to respond effectively to their pandemics, sub-Saharan African countries will need to strengthen their tax systems, including closing tax exemptions, which currently cost countries an average of 2.6% of GDP in lost revenue across the region. Donors also need to scale up financial assistance for health and the HIV response between now and 2030, while creditors should offer debt relief to heavily indebted countries to ease the burden. RELATED POSTS * Access to mental health and psychosocial support services remains unequal for children and adolescents in Africa At least one in seven children in sub-Saharan Africa experiences significant psychological hardship. 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