Luanda – Angolan president João Lourenço received Tuesday in an audience, the head of the Global Fund's Africa and Middle East department, Caty Fall Sow, with whom he discussed aspects related to the partnership in the health sector.
Speaking to the press at the end of the meeting, Caty Fall Sow said that she had analyzed with the Angolan Head of State the long partnership between Angola and the Global Fund with regard to combating tuberculosis, HIV and malaria in the country.
Caty Sow said Angola is a country where the Global Fund has been working in two provinces (Benguela and Cuanza Sul), but that with the 52 percent increase in investment, it had added Bié.
She praised the Angolan government's commitment to the health sector, having put the issue on its development agenda and not just as a political option.
This commitment, Caty Sow said, is evident in the increase in the budget and the provision of funds to treat these three diseases and others, in specific investments and in the commitment to human resources, infrastructure, strengthening supply chains, laboratories and data systems to be able to provide quality health services to the Angolan population.
The Global Fund signed Tuesday a grant with the Ministry of Health to support the fight against malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, for the three-year period 2024/27, valued at 126 million US dollars to be allocated to the provinces of Benguela, Cuanza-Sul and Bié.
On the occasion, the Health minister, Sílvia Lutucuta, confirmed that the increase in investment allowed Bié to be included in the program and clearly demonstrates the Global Fund's confidence in strengthening the national health system.
Created in 2002, the Global Fund is an international financial organization that aims to raise and donate resources to prevent and treat infectious diseases, mainly HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, in underdeveloped countries.PA/MCN/TED/AMP
