Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Global Fund will make available around US$4.7 million (4.4 million euros) to finance, until 2025, programs to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Cape Verde.
According to Inforpress, the largest portion of the funds allocated by the institution for the period from 2023 to 2025 will be to finance programs to combat HIV/AIDS, with 2.99 million dollars (2.7 million euros), followed by malaria, with 1.21 million dollars (1.1 million euros), and tuberculosis, with 500,000 dollars (470,000 euros), a value similar to that assigned from 2020 to 2022.
The institution, one of Cape Verde’s main international donors, on a non-repayable basis, says that the funding made available is aimed at supporting the country’s goal of eliminating vertical transmission of HIV and syphilis this year, reducing deaths from tuberculosis by 50% compared to to 2015, and treat 100% of people with drug-resistant tuberculosis, in addition to “maintaining Cape Verde’s status of zero indigenous cases of malaria”.
Resilient and sustainable systems
The grant also supports a selection of activities aimed at helping to make Cape Verde’s health systems even more “resilient and sustainable”, explains the institution.
Cape Verde, which has not registered cases of local transmission of malaria for more than three years, the institution says that the “strong and stable political environment” and the “robust health system” of the archipelago “resulted in significant gains in the fight against HIV , tuberculosis and malaria”.
“Cape Verde has been a leader in efforts to eliminate vertical transmission of HIV”
“The country has been a leader in efforts to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV – when the virus passes from mother to child during pregnancy – and is one of the few countries in West and Central Africa that is close to achieving this goal. Cape Verde also spent several consecutive years without local transmission of malaria, making it eligible to apply for certification from the World Health Organization for the elimination of malaria”, describes the institution, in the update on the archipelago made at the end of 2022.
Cape Verde has an AIDS prevalence rate of 0.8% and since 2012 has had a rate of one case of tuberculosis per thousand inhabitants.
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