New Vision (Kampala)

Uganda: Country Misses Another Global Fund Share

11 November 2008

Kampala — UGANDA has missed having a share of the $2.75b (about sh5.1trillion) Global Fund that has been approved under Round 8.

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Monday announced that it had approved 94 new grants of $2.75b, over two years. "Uganda did not apply for Round 8, because of the delays in the several required conditions, which had not yet been fulfilled in the first grants that we received," the Global Funds coordinator at the Uganda AIDS Commission, Jim Arinaitwe, said.

Last month, The New Vision revealed that Uganda was to lose $12m (about sh25b) from the Global Fund over failure to meet the accountability procedures.

Out of $36m allocated to Uganda in 2003, over $10m is not yet released as the Fund was not satisfied with how the first installments were used. Another $24m was allocated in 2004 for malaria activities, but to-date $2m has not been disbursed.

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  • rosenc72
    Nov 12 2008, 15:38
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    bravo Global Fund. I really hope that actions such as this will/can help our leaders be more accountable and put whatever foreign aid we get to good use. Its time for the looting to end!