Nine (9) AIDS Activists were detained for questioning by Dar Es Salaam authorities at the World Economic Forum on Africa [WEF] in Tanzania last Thursday, 06[05]2010. The group were arrested after they handed over a memorandum on the need for increased investment in HIV, TB and Malaria in Africa, titled 'Health is Wealth', to two prominent speakers at the WEF.
A press release from the AIDS Rights Alliance of Southern Africa (ARASA), endorsed by the Treatment Action Campaign explains the situation:
"Yvonne Chaka Chaka, a popular South African musician and UN Goodwill Ambassador for the region, and Christoph Benn, the Director of External Relations for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, had arranged with the group to receive the memorandum from them outside the conference centre....
..."The small group had been delegated by 40 NGO representatives from more than ten African countries, who were gathered in Dar Es Salaam to discuss global and regional advocacy strategies to address the urgent need for resource mobilization for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care (universal access), and for replenishment of the Global Fund in October 2010...
...One such strategy included the submission of a memorandum to participants of the World Economic Forum, which outlined the concerns and demands of civil society organizations working on HIV and TB in response to the rapid backtracking of both donors and national governments on their commitments to funding universal access."
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