SUDAN: Funding woes continue to plague HIV fight

JUBA Thursday, November 20, 2008 (IRIN) - For over a year, the South Sudan AIDS Commission (SSAC) has been setting up offices in the ten states that make up Southern Sudan, but a combination of funding delays and a population largely uninformed about HIV is keeping the fight against the pandemic from moving forward. In 2007, the SSAC announced a new road map http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=71581 to contain the epidemic. The region was also due to receive grants worth US$28.5...