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Gabriel ADEYEMO [ profile ] |
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South Africa: Global Fund monies finally released
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Feb 24th, 2012 - 21:38:07 |
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SOURCE:* IRIN/PlusNews*
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=94927
More than seven months overdue, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria grant will finally be released to key South African AIDS
organizations that have been struggling to survive... The Global Fund
released US $7,106,426.91 to the South African National Treasury on 6
February, the same day seven of the grant's sub-recipients delivered an
open letter to Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi, pleading for
intervention to bring the Fund's "life-threatening delays" to an end.
Signed by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and six other sub-recipients
of the Fund's Round 6 HIV grant to South Africa, the letter warned of
imminent closure of vital community-response programmes across South
Africa... The payment, of which US $2,722,555 will be released this week to
the sub-recipients, represents about half the total owed by the Global Fund
to these community organizations for July-December 2011. It covers human
resources only and no programmatic costs...
The new general manager, Gabriel Jaramillo, is expected to spearhead a
reform process. The South African sub-recipients of Round 6 funding would
like to see some change. "Almost every tranche has been late since the
beginning," said TAC treasurer Nathan Geffen... "What has become patently
clear is that the Global Fund systems are so complex that neither the Fund
nor its principal recipient, the Department of Health, is able to manage
the system properly," Geffen told *IRIN/Plus News*. Organizations such as
TAC, which deliver services on the ground, are not funded directly by the
Global Fund. Instead it contracts with a single principal recipient, the
health department, encouraging organizations from different sectors to work
together. In theory, this system should simplify administration. But with
multiple organizations trying to meet complex reporting requirements, the
result appears to have been additional complications that TAC says the
health department is not adequately equipped to administer...
Regardless of who is at fault, services in South Africa have been
disrupted, and the reality on the ground is grim. Nearly all the
sub-recipients have dug deep into reserve funds. Furthermore, the ability
to plan activities has been hamstrung... Meanwhile, the sub-recipients
still do not know when they can expect the balance owed from 2011, or
2012's first payment... The Fund maintains that now that single stream
funding is in place, recipients will see some change...
Click on the link above to read full story. Thanks for reading through
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Many Thanks
Yours' in Prevention Science
Gabriel, ADEYEMO
Regional Focal Point - West Africa
Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AID (GYCA), a program of the Public Health
Institute
+234-80-6798-7317 | gabriel (at) gyca.org
www.gyca.org | www.phi.org
GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 6,500 young leaders and adult
allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 173 countries world-wide. GYCA's
mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources
and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst
their peers.
*My United Nations Pledge 2011-2012: "To lend my wit and my strength to the
AIDS Response guiding global youth towards one goal: Zero HIV: Zero AIDS
Related Deaths, Zero New Infections, Zero Stigma"*
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