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A UN agency warned last week that a massive US$60m funding shortfall is forcing food aid cuts to as many as 4.3 million people across southern Africa

Among those hard hit are people living with HIV and Aids, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said.

"Anti-retroviral therapy is not effective on an empty stomach," said WFP's regional director Amir Abdulla said in the agency's lates update.

The shortfall comes just as the annual 'lean season' approaches, when people have to wait until next March or April for the harvest.

Published: 07 November 2006
Issue: 1243