# Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi says Treasury has allocated 750-million-rand to the department to plug the funding gap left by the US withdrawal of the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief. Pepfar funding accounted for only 17-percent of the country’s HIV response funding. Motsoaledi told Parliament that 590-million-rand will be allocated to provinces through the comprehensive HIV/Aids section of the district health programme grant. He added that the government is committed to eliminating HIV/Aids as a public health threat by 2030.
Health Department gets R750-million from Treasury to bolster HIV/Aids initiatives