CALL FOR END TO GLOBAL FUND CONTROVERSY.

(From SAPA (South African Press Association))

(SUBS: RECASTS, ADDS HEALTH DEPT REAX) In the controversy over whether a donation from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis will go to an initiative in KwaZulu-Natal or to national government, a number of well known individuals and bodies have cone out in support of the local initiative. Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the SA Medical Association, Prof Hoosen Coovadia of the University of Natal, and the Treatment Action Campaign were among the signatories of a joint statement on Thursday. They noted that Aids in KwaZulu-Natal had caused "immense suffering and death, especially among poor people, and the …