Nairobi, June 17 -- The Global Fund has cut funding for Kenya's HIV programme by 18.2 percent to Sh26.4 billion ($205million) over the next three years under its Grant Cycle 8(G8), which runs from 2026 to 2028. This will be a major cut from about Sh32.3 billion ($250 million) in the previous funding cycle.

Disclosures by the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health organisation specialising in intelligence and data analysis, place Kenya among 13 sub-Saharan African countries facing significant HIV funding chops as global donor resources tighten, even as countries transition to domestic funding.

"Overall allocations across HIV, TB, and malaria are 17.9 percent lower than those of the previous three-year cycle. For HIV spe...