December 7, 2010
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has suspended funding of two malaria grants in Mali with immediate effect and has terminated a third grant for tuberculosis (TB) after it found evidence of misappropriation and unjustified expenditure. Management of the two suspended grants will be transferred to a new Principal Recipient.
The government of Mali has condemned the embezzlement of funds and is working with the Global Fund to solve problems and ensure that grant activities can resume as soon as possible.
In addition to the Mali grant suspension, the Global Fund is placing grants in five countries on an "Additional Safeguards Policy" list. Grants in countries on this list are subject to closer scrutiny of their grant activities by The Global Fund and have certain restrictions on cash movements. The five countries are Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania and Papua New Guinea.
The Global Fund is also putting in place a number of actions to prevent and detect possible misuse of money for training in grants across all the144 countries that receive funding, as well as drug theft in grants in specific countries. These actions have been taken in response to evidence that training expenses and drug supplies are particularly at risk of misappropriation in health sector financing from international donors.
http://www.fightingmalaria.org/
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