The decision by Kenya to increase her contribution to Global Fund from more than Sh800 million to more than Sh1.3 billion is due to the benefits the country has derived from the partnership.
President William Ruto on Monday said Kenya deliberately increased the contribution to create the partnership with other development partners and multilateral organisations and be able to support the delivery of the government’s commitments.
Ruto spoke when he flagged off more than 20,000 oxygen cylinders to counties at the State House.
“I cannot emphasize the magnitude of the positive change we have achieved, the opportunities we have identified and the potential to do much more and much better than earlier projected thanks to our policy shift to partnerships as effective project implementation and service delivery frameworks,” he said.
Ruto noted that through a close and strong partnership with Global Fund, Kenya entered into effective engagement with other governments, civil society the private sector and affected communities which enabled us to register remarkable progress in improving public health.
“The partnership that we have fostered with Global Fund has contributed hugely to our country’s tremendous progress in combating three of the most devastating diseases, HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis and malaria,” he said.
Ruto said by investing more than Sh242 billion in the past two decades in the strengthening of health service delivery infrastructure and community systems the global fund has facilitated high-impact strategic health programmes in the country.
For instance, there has been a 67 per cent decline in AIDs related deaths since 2013, 85 per cent success in the treatment of TB and a major drop in the national malaria prevalence from eight per cent in 2015 to six per cent in 2020.
