UN report: Debt crisis undermines AIDS eradication in Africa
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Zimbabwe was a pioneer of the AIDS levy — a 3% income tax for individuals and 3% tax on profits of employers — in 1999 when it set up the National Aids Council. It's headquarters are shown here in Harare on Sept. 20, 2024. Zimbabwean parliament Speaker Jacob Mudenda addresses his colleagues on Sept. 20, 2024, at Mount Hampden, telling them that the budget of $387 million for HIV programs was no longer enough.
A new report released by the main United Nations agency for action on AIDS and HIV says growing public debt is choking sub-Saharan African countries, leaving them with little fiscal room to finance critical HIV services.
This video grab obtained by AFPTV from Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision du Mali on Sept. 17, 2024, shows Mali's army chief of staff, Oumar Diarra, speaking to reporters following a jihadist attack on a military airport and training center in Bamako. This video grab taken from an AFPTV video on Sept. 17, 2024, shows a plume of smoke rising in Bamako, Mali, as shots and detonations were heard during a jihadist attack on a military airport and training center.
This photo reportedly taken on Sept. 18, 2024, and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 19, 2024, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the test firing of a new tactical ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. This picture reportedly taken on Sept. 18, 2024, and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 19, 2024, shows a new tactical ballistic missile landing on the target during a test-firing at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
Emile Miango, 2, who has mpox, lies in the hospital, on Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. Olivier Lamec and Divine Wisoba walk by the grave of their daughter Maombi on Sept. 3, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, in eastern Congo. The town of Kamituga, in South Kivu province in eastern Congo, considered the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of mpox, is seen on Sept. 5, 2024. Atumisi Anaclet treats a sex worker with mpox on Sept. 4, 2024, in a hospital in Kamituga, in eastern Congo's South Kivu province. Gold miners at work on Sept. 5, 2024, in Kamituga in eastern Congo's South Kivu province.
Workers pull a hand cart loaded with sacks of vegetables through a wholesale market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 13, 2024. FILE - Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe waves to supporters as he arrives to address a public election rally in Minuwangoda, Sri Lanka, Sept. 17, 2024. Leader and the presidential candidate of National People's Power Anura Kumara Dissanayake speaks to supporters during the final public rally ahead of the election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 18, 2024. Presidential candidate and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa of the Samagi Jana Balawgaya or United People's Power party waves to supporters as he arrives for the final election rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 18, 2024. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party presidential candidate Namal Rajapaksa attends an election rally ahead of the upcoming presidential election, in Colombo on Sept. 16, 2024.
People sit next to torn election posters at a street in Dematagoda, Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 7, 2024. Lankika Dilrukshi, 31, along with her son is pictured inside her house in Thotalanga, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 9, 2024. Nancy Hemalatha, 61, a fruit seller waits for customers at her shop in Thotalanga, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 9, 2024.