We the signed on members of civil society and organisations call on African Governments and the African Union to consider as an emergency issue the necessity to develop a clear time-bound Health and HIV funding strategy and action plan focused on domestic resources for HIV by 2012.

Against the backdrop of another pending Global financial crisis, many government donor agencies and international donors are reviewing their financial commitments to funding Health and HIV on the African continent. At its recent board meeting in Accra, Ghana; the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that it would be cancelling funding for “Round 11”. Many African countries are facing the real threat of not meeting their budget requirements for implementing the much needed scale up of ART programmes, relying heavily on the Global Fund and PEPFAR to sustain these programmes.

Civil Society calls on African Heads of State to implement the Abuja Declaration and to honour the recommitment made to the Political Declaration signed in June 2011 toward Universal Access. Now more than ever we need our African Governments to play a proactive role; and to step up and Invest Sustainable Domestic Resources in Health and HIV Responses.
It is time for Africa’s financial ownership of the response to HIV and AIDS!!!

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