Global Fund: Zambia corruption

The Global Fund has suspended disbursements to the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Zambia, which is the principal recipient (PR) for several grants. The Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has concluded that there was fraud in connection with one or more of the grants. Disbursements are being allowed for life-saving interventions (drugs and other directly related costs), but these disbursements are being made directly to procurement agents or suppliers, not to the MoH. Arrangements are now being made to transfer the MoH grants to a new PR, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on an interim basis.