Global Fund pulls grants to Myanmar and Uganda

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475

BMJ 2005;331:475 (3 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7515.475

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Global Fund pulls grants to Myanmar and Uganda

London Lynn Eaton

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has announced that it will no longer fund schemes in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) and has temporarily suspended its grants to Uganda. The fund is an independent organisation set up to attract and disburse funds to tackle these diseases.

The decision over Myanmar was attributed to new travel clearance procedures introduced by the military government that severely restrict the movement of staff from the United Nations Development Programme, which was overseeing the projects in the country. It would have restricted the areas in which the programme would have been allowed to operate, said the fund.

The government in Myanmar had also imposed new procedures for procuring medical supplies that, it adds, were vital for the schemes to be implemented. The fund will be phasing out three grants, worth $35.7m (�19.8m; �29m) over two years, by the end . . . [Full text of this article]

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