UGANDA: Justice slowly meted out in Global Fund corruption trials
NAIROBI, 19 August 2009 (PlusNews): The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is one of Ugandas key health partners; over the past six years it has disbursed more than 164 million US dollar in programme grants.
But the funds relationship with the government has not always run smoothly; in 2005, the discovery of serious mismanagement in the Ministry of Health led to the brief suspension of financing.
Stakeholders have criticized the government for being too slow in its investigations and prosecutions, but the wheels of justice have finally begun to turn; an anti-corruption court has charged more than 300 people with crimes ranging from embezzlement and causing financial loss to abuse of office and defeating the ends of justice.
Four convictions have been made so far.
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