Zimbabwe, one of the countries worst hit by the AIDS, is not getting enough money to fight the epidemic, the main U.N. agency coordinating the programme said on Sunday. Zimbabwe, with about a quarter of its adult population infected with HIV or with AIDS received $60 million from the U.S. government and other donor groups last year, Karl Dehne, the Zimbabwe head of U.N. agency UNAIDS, said. But that was a trickle compared even with smaller nations in the Southern Africa region. Dehne said Zimbabwe received nothing last year from the World Bank's Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Programme for Africa and the Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and neither the World Bank nor the International monetary Fund have had a programme in Zimbabwe since 1999. No official reasons for the cash shortage have been given, but some donor officials say concerns over Zimbabwe's internal policies have been a factor in deciding on aid to Harare. Some countries in the region last year received as much as $200 million from individual agencies to fight AIDS, Dehne said. "What is certain is that Zimbabwe has been receiving much less than its neighbours. --More 2218 Local Time 1918 GMT
