ANC hi-jacking of UN HIV/Aids funds

Cheryllyn Dudley MP
African Christian Democratic Party
Tuesday, 07 August 2002

Cheryllyn Dudley, member of the National Assembly and Portfolio Committee on Health, today said, “The African Christian Democratic Party is appalled at the way the ANC government has connived to take control of the United Nations potential funding of R600 million for the fight against HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal”.

“The KZN proposal is immeasurably more practical than that of the Department of Health” Mrs Dudley said. The KZN proposals include funding for anti-retrovirals to TB patients, pregnant women and health-care workers, shelters for orphans, training for healthcare workers to provide triple therapy and expanding HIV counselling and testing services. “By contrast” Mrs. Dudley said “the Department of Health's proposal provides primarily for more funding for AIDS education programmes, including the immoral Lovelife campaign, with little practical assistance for those who are so desperately in need”.

Lovelife, an off-shoot of the most profitable of "non-profit" organisations, Planned Parenthood, which is largely responsible for the stupendous growth of the profitable condom and abortion industries around the world, especially in impoverished areas. Lovelife already receives R100 million from Government and millions more from Global Foundations like PPASA who themselves receive additional government funding to encourage and teach children and teens to masturbate, have oral sex, use condoms and pursue "alternative" sexual lifestyles”.

The government's proposed usage of the hi-jacked Global Funds is shocking in light of the situation in KZN where practical treatment and care is so desperately needed.



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