Agreement on disease fight fund
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June 2, 2011, Thursday
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A CHINESE official yesterday promised to strengthen supervision and management of funds from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Ren Minghui, chair of the China Country Coordinating Mechanism for Global Fund Programs (CCM), an organization established in 2002 to monitor and guide the implementation of projects approved by the fund, was speaking in response to the fund's decision last month to halt payments for programs in China.
The fund said it believed the main Chinese recipient, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, "had violated an accord of the Global Fund which said that a part of the financing accorded, at least 35 percent, must go through community organizations."
After intensive dialogue, CCM had reached an agreement with the secretariat of Global Fund on the proportion of future funding allocations that goes to community organizations, Ren said.
"We are deeply concerned about the negative impact of halting funds for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria," read a joint statement issued by Ren, who is also the director-general of the Department of International Cooperation under China's Health Ministry, and Michael O'Leary, CCM vice chair and World Health Organization representative to China.
The CCM has paid close attention to public participation in fighting diseases and has made it clear that this is key to the successful implementation of the Global Fund program in China, according to the statement.
The CDC had identified weaknesses in resource management at the operational level and has made efforts to address these issues according to the advice of Global Fund Secretariat, the statement added.
Launched about 10 years ago, the Global Fund is the world's single largest source of funding for efforts to track and eliminate HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The fund has an overall budget of US$21.7 billion drawn from 150 countries and private donors.
The Global Fund has spent more than US$548 million to fight disease in China, where it has been active since 2003.
Ren Minghui, chair of the China Country Coordinating Mechanism for Global Fund Programs (CCM), an organization established in 2002 to monitor and guide the implementation of projects approved by the fund, was speaking in response to the fund's decision last month to halt payments for programs in China.
The fund said it believed the main Chinese recipient, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, "had violated an accord of the Global Fund which said that a part of the financing accorded, at least 35 percent, must go through community organizations."
After intensive dialogue, CCM had reached an agreement with the secretariat of Global Fund on the proportion of future funding allocations that goes to community organizations, Ren said.
"We are deeply concerned about the negative impact of halting funds for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria," read a joint statement issued by Ren, who is also the director-general of the Department of International Cooperation under China's Health Ministry, and Michael O'Leary, CCM vice chair and World Health Organization representative to China.
The CCM has paid close attention to public participation in fighting diseases and has made it clear that this is key to the successful implementation of the Global Fund program in China, according to the statement.
The CDC had identified weaknesses in resource management at the operational level and has made efforts to address these issues according to the advice of Global Fund Secretariat, the statement added.
Launched about 10 years ago, the Global Fund is the world's single largest source of funding for efforts to track and eliminate HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The fund has an overall budget of US$21.7 billion drawn from 150 countries and private donors.
The Global Fund has spent more than US$548 million to fight disease in China, where it has been active since 2003.
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