SADC faces 10-bln-USD health financing gap amid declining external support

HARARE, June 28– The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is facing an estimated 10 billion U.S. dollars health financing gap due to dwindling external support, the SADC Secretariat has said.

The declining external support puts three decades of gains in HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and nutrition at risk, the Secretariat said in a statement on Saturday ahead of a joint meeting of SADC Ministers of Finance and Health scheduled for July 2-3 in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital.