US South Africa HIV/AIDS funding stop! A veritable lesson!

When I first heard that it was the US taking care of HIV/AIDS issues in Africa through PEPFAR, I wasn’t happy.

Not because it isn’t a good initiative, but because life is transient so what if the US suddenly loses interest in the sponsorship or stops it for whatever else in a world where anything can happen at any time?

It would leave those benefitting from it very exposed.

And my reasoning was just that considering how important HIV/AIDS issues are, every country should take care of its own HIV/AIDS’ issues by themselves.

But trust African leaders and their love of unreasonable freebies.

They just left their own HIV/AIDS issues in the hands of the US so they could embezzle the funds they would have had to divert to it themselves.

And when you’re a receiver, you bow to your giver.

It seems South Africa doesn’t know this simple rule, however, and it has led to its PEPFAR funding by the US to be headed to a halt and it’s a no-brainer to know that the publicly documented rifts between the two countries have a hand in the funding stop which has now led to the situation I foresaw long ago: what if the funding of such a critical issue stops?

And while for South Africa right now, the funding stop is a lesson that you don’t bite the hand that feeds you, for other countries also benefitting from PEPFAR, it should be a lesson to them that after years of the US taking care of their HIV/AIDS issues, they should finally start taking care of them all by themselves.

A stitch in time saves nine and a word is enough for the wise.