Eswatini is one of the countries which has been most affected by HIV. At the peak of the epidemic in 2015, almost one out of three people were living with HIV. In 1995, when there was no antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV, 73 000 people were living with HIV. 2400 people died of AIDS that year. Worried about the rising number of infections and deaths,
The People’s March was organised to focus attention and demand action on critical health issues including HIV, Aids, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. However, the march was abruptly cancelled “with no notice or justification”. The ban was accompanied by disturbing reports of activists being detai.
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This is far from the first time the Global Fund would accuse recipients of its grants of fraud and mismanagement, a situation that hinders progress in the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria.
WFP Eswatini Country Brief, February 2021
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US$ 757,305 cash-based transfers made in February 2021
US$ 5.4 million six-month (April–September 2021) net funding requirements
82,548 people assisted with cash-based transfers in February 2021
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services. Due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and associated containment measures, food distributions at the NCPs have been suspended as of February 2021. WFP will resume food distributions in March.
• WFP, together with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Save the Children and ADRA, are currently training NCP caregivers and smallholder famers in conventional agriculture. This concept was adopted in Zimbabwe and its main aim is to promote local food production, maximize harvest in a small piece of land, and empow