Ugandan To Lead Global Health Fund

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Kofi Anan chooses Ugandan To Lead Global Health Fund

UN Secretary-General Kofi n has chosen Crispus Kiyonga, a former

Ugandan health and finance minister, as chair of the transitional

working group for the establishment of the Global AIDS and Health

Fund, UN spokesperson Marie Okabe announced yesterday.

Kiyonga, who currently is a cabinet minister without portfolio and

political adviser in the government of Ugandan President Yoweri

Museveni, " is well known regionally and internationally as a champion

of efforts against HIV/AIDS as well as malaria and tuberculosis, "

Okabe said.

The AIDS fund is to be set up by December. So far, $1.4 billion has

been pledged to the fund, according to the United Nations. n has

said that in order to effectively fight AIDS, between $7 billion and

$10 billion is needed by 2005 (Agence France-Presse, 31 Jul).

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