Den Globale Fond mod aids, tuberkulose og malaria har indgået en aftale med FNs Udviklingsprogram (UNDP) om at genoptage et anti-hivprogram i fuld skala, der bl.a. inkluderer behandling af 30.000 hiv-ramte i Sahel-landet Mali. Programmet har været ramt af svindel.
GENEVA, 21. November 2012: Under the accord, the Global Fund approved funding for 58 million euro for HIV screening, prevention and treatment in Mali over the next three years. Some 50.000 people in Mali are currently living with HIV.
“The signing of this agreement involving the Global Fund, the UN Development Programme and Mali brings hope for many of our citizens who can now say they have not been forgotten,” Mali’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Tiéman Coulibaly said.
The program targets key populations at higher risk and one of its priorities is to intensify efforts to reduce the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child and support more systematic voluntary screening of pregnant women.
The Global Fund and its partners took steps to restore confidence in grant management in Mali after mismanagement of funds was discovered.
As a temporary measure, the scope of the Global Fund’s grant was reduced in 2011 to funding of essential services to ensure continuity of treatment for 25.288 people in Mali who were receiving antiretroviral therapy with Global Fund support.
Under the arrangement, it was also possible to start new patients on treatment and the total number on treatment has now risen to 30.000.
UNDP was asked by the Mali Country Coordinating Mechanism to take over managing the HIV program grant.
The Global Fund has since 2011 scaled up mechanisms for management and oversight of grants, while UNDP has further strengthened safeguards against fraud and expanded access by the Global Fund to UNDP internal audits of programs financed by the Global Fund.
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