UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Kofi Annan named former Ugandan Health Minister Crispus Kiyonga as head of the transition team for the UN-brokered Global Aids and Health Fund on Monday. Kiyonga, who until last week oversaw what many observers consider to be “one of Africa’s most effective AIDS-prevention campaigns,” will head a group charged with determining how the fund will operate. “Dr Kiyonga is well known regionally and internationally as a champion of efforts against HIV/AIDS as well as malaria and tuberculosis,” Marie Okabe Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General said at a press briefing in New York on Monday. The Global AIDS and Health Fund is to be set up by December. – IRIN