PEPFAR and The Highly Inflated Target Numbers To Secure More Funding
It is unethical, abusive, calculated to manipulate and inflate numbers. They sit in meetings, in spaces where connivance, cunning, conspiracy and commerce can go on un deterred. They throw out well executed proposals by seasoned grass root health workers-cum community mobilisers. Instead, they prefer working with HIV Care naive mobilisers with whom they meet in fancy hotels to plan strategies. Mobilisers, who will not question orders but will follow them blindly. Even if it meant risking the life of those living with HIV or their beneficiaries who may require other HIV-related services. Exit poll HIV Programming is the in-thing and such organizations ready to do that are favoured by Implementing Partner Project Managers. These mobilisers are now formed into groups and taken through a coaching session. This makes them long pipelines through which millions of PEPFAR funding are minted. There is a vicious brokerage within the US funded anti-HIV Prevention projects which has ...
