The Global Fund has invested 83 thousand dollars in the aforementioned provinces of Angola, where, according to ANASO, coverage of antiretrovirals, condoms, tests and other inputs that allow for the satisfactory progress of the fight once morest AIDS is expected.
The leader of the Angolan Network of AIDS Service Organizations (ANASO), António Coelho, revealed to OPAÍS that the Global Fund financed a project to fight AIDS in the provinces of Cuanza-Sul and Benguela with a budget of 83 thousand dollars, which does not predict saturation.
According to the interviewee, who said he had seen the progress of the aforementioned program, this means that this investment that the Global Fund is making does not foresee that, at any point during its implementation, there will be a shortage of antiretrovirals, condoms, tests or of other inputs to combat AIDS.
“But the truth is that, with this investment, in these provinces, we continue to see almost everything breaking down and the only thing that justifies this has to do with the data that does not reflect the reality of the cases.
We are working with underestimated data and, when we are quantifying the necessary products, we do it by default”, explained António Coelho.
To ensure what he had just mentioned regarding the deficiency in the effect of the data, the president of ANASO made reference to a tour that, very recently, he and his team carried out in some provinces, where they worked with those responsible for collecting and processing the data that , then, they are made available to the spectrum.
Theoretically unrealistic data
When he and his partners at ANASO look at this data, they remember, firstly, that the last population study or multidisciplinary survey of multiple health indicators was carried out in 2016, at the well-known IMS (today Instituto Técnico de Saúde de Luanda) and that the data are no longer updated.
“We are living, fundamentally, on the support of these 2016 studies, on the one hand, and, on the other, on estimates given to us by an instrument called spectrum, which is a UN-AIDS instrument that works on the basis of data that are made available to you” lamented the AIDS advocate.
He highlighted that this instrument offers estimated data and that not even in this chapter it is good, because the work of collecting and processing data is done in a terrible, irregular way and without required conditions, which influences them to help quickly improve these records .
