Southern Africa: UN initiative speeds up service delivery

Two months ago, hospitals in Botswana had to wait four months for the delivery of emergency medicines, but with the help of a UN initiative this has now been slashed to just six days. The Southern African Capacity Initiative (SACI), launched in 2004 to deal with the haemorrhaging of administrative skills in the region as a result of HIV/AIDS and the brain drain, has begun to pay dividends, according to Tore Skatun, a policy advisor with the initiative.