Germany refused to finance the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Germany intends to suspend multimillion-dollar contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports. As the main reason, the Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Nibel called corruption in the allocation of funds allocated to the fund.
Every year the FRG listed GFATM 200 million euros. However, as it became known to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, in the draft budget for 2012, nothing is envisaged for these purposes, although Germany promised to carry out payments until 2013 at a meeting of donor countries last October.
Angela Merkel previously publicly praised the work of GFATM. Through the Global Fund, established in 2002 with the active participation of Bill Gates, two-thirds of all financial transfers aimed at combating tuberculosis and malaria take place, and one-fifth of all funds for the international fight against HIV.
For his part, Dirk Nibel, through whose ministry all German contributions are spent, questioned the effectiveness of the Global Fund. In a number of African countries, where funds from GFATM are received, cases of abuse and corruption totaling $ 44 million have been identified.
In the government's draft budget, it is noted that the FRG will resume payments only if "the suspicions of corruption that have arisen against the Global Fund prove to be unreasonable".
At the same time, of the 200 million budgeted for 2011, the FRG listed GFATM only half and only after the international expert commission in the report of July 1 recognized that control mechanisms in the Global Fund could be improved.
Dirk Niebel also put forward a number of additional conditions for the resumption of German payments to GFATM. He insists that funds received from Germany go only to those countries where reliable international organizations, such as the United Nations Development Program, or the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) .
In GFATM, for their part, it is noted that such requirements are contrary to the fundamental principles of the fund's work - not to link payments with any specific recipient of assistance. Representatives of the Global Fund and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development will meet this week to work out a compromise solution.
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