A major donor from the United Kingdom, the Department for International Development (DFID), has confirmed that it will channel its funding for HIV/Aids programmes only through the government, ThisDay reports. That’s after committing R500m to South Africa and R3bn to Africa. This endorses a call at an April 2004 meeting, when the United Nations together with the United States, the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and Malaria agreed that governments should be the sole administer of HIV/Aids donor funding.