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Humanosphere

Feds deny funding to UW health project in Mozambique

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Patients at a hospital clinic in Chamoio, Mozambique, where the UW's Health Alliance International offers programs, including work with those afflicted by HIV/AIDS.

The Obama Administration says it wants to re-invent foreign aid and one of its mantras is to increase “country ownership” of the programs it funds for improving health and welfare in poor countries.

Given this, it came as a shock to Dr. Stephen Gloyd and others at the UW’s Health Alliance International (HAI) when the government basically pulled the plug on a long-running AIDS health care project in Mozambique that is, or was anyway, widely regarded as a model of doing just that.

“It’s ironic given their goal of wanting to strengthen local governance,” said Gloyd, director at HAI.

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