Sep 15 2011
European Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs announced during a visit to South Africa on Monday that the European Union (E.U.) "will contribute 126 million euros to South Africa's fight against AIDS and tuberculosis (TB)," money that "will be used to improve South Africa's primary health care system, increasing access for patients," Reuters reports (9/12).
The money will fund the country's Primary Health Care Sector Policy Support Program, which "aims to contribute to increased life expectancy, reduced maternal and child mortality and the fight against HIV/AIDS and [TB]," a European Commission press release states, adding, "To this purpose it will support the South African government, and notably the Minister of Health, to improve access to health care services for patients and to raise the quality and management of the health system at district level" (9/12).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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