Speaking on Saturday at the African Union Summit, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said huge advances in HIV treatment and prevention have been made over the past decade in Africa, “[b]ut these gains ‘are not sustainable,’ … because they are heavily dependent on foreign aid,” the Zimbabwean reports (1/30). “An estimated two-thirds of AIDS expenditures in Africa come from international funding sources, according to a new UNAIDS issues brief titled “AIDS dependency crisis: sourcing African solutions” (.pdf), Xinhua writes (1/29).

“Sidibe said that financing a sustainable response to the HIV epidemic in Africa will require home-grown and innovative solutions that meet the needs of the African people,” according to a UNAIDS press release (1/28). “UNAIDS believes that Africa can negotiate a new ‘shared ownership-shared responsibility’ agenda with international partners,” as the amount of foreign aid going toward fighting HIV/AIDS is falling and unpredictable, the Zimbabwean notes (1/30).