Governor Wanga urges more revenue allocation to HIV-burdened counties

This follows concerns that HIV and AIDS funding is seriously decreasing, causing fear over the fight to end spreads of the disease by 2030.

In an effort to avert the looming crisis in HIV management, Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga wants HIV prevalence to be a factor to consider in allocating shared revenue from the National Treasury. 

“The revenue share that we have does not take into account the fact that some counties have a heavy burden of HIV. You have people on treatment yet the revenue sharing formula by CRA does not take this into account,” said the governor. 

Wanga, who spoke as she presided over the Homa- Bay County World AIDS Day, said donors who are cutting their expenditure on HIV management had shown a red signal for government authorities to be proactive.

“They should allocate more resources to counties with heavy burden of HIV…. So that when donor funding ends… counties have money.”

The governor said the Lake Region Economic Block presented a proposal to the CRA to consider allocating more funds to reduce disease burden. 

Dr. Michael Audo, the Project Director at the LVCT expressed the need for various stakeholders to scale up the preventive measures and fight against HIV/AIDS and its related deaths. 

According to the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC), Kisumu, Homa Bay, Migori, Siaya, Busia and Kisii are some of the counties with high HIV prevalence.