Mod: Below is a selection of various postings received by PartnersGf during the past few days on......

- Donors slowing down support for the Fund...
- Round 5 and GF funding rounds in general...
- Large-scale projects supported by the GF
- The importance of TB


On donors slowing down support for the Fund...
Mac Bain Mkandawire, Malawi
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Sometimes you wonder whether the interest is to support the Fund and deal with the situation, or it is a mere token where the donors want to be heard that they are financing a programme. Is it a media issue or do we have a problem at hand?

When Kofi Annan created this fund, he surely knew that AIDS is causing suffering, retarding development and that $$ millions are spent on the health care systems.

It is ridiculous for the donors to put a halt to the funding. This is a crisis and emergency. Any attempts to stop supporting HIV/AIDS interventions will only result in more problems. The western countries should note that we are watching you. Bush administration has not met its pledges.

About the Global Fund non performance - I think we have not given them the relevant tools. We want to go through the same bureaucracy in a crisis? Is it UN bureaucracy? They can’t perform under such a situation.

Mac Bain Mkandawire

Exective Director,
Youth Net and Counselling (YONECO),
Kazembe Location, Near Likangala Secondary School,
P.O. Box 471,
Zomba
Malawi
Email: mhjmkandawire@sdnp.org.mw


Round 5 and funding rounds in general...
Tcharbuahbokengo Nfinn
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Dear Members,

We in Cameroon and brothers in Nigeria are also in the rally to support for call of round 5, we need it urgently!!!!.

All proposals to arrest the epidemic have been referred to round 5 by the Global Fund. My Community is perishing and residents languishing with the epidemic, the Bakassi penisular, the Cameroon Nigerian Boarders, the HIV/AIDS situation after the just ended Boarder Crisis.

I will like to point out something very serious here.

Rounds should be two times a year not once as the case is.

I imagine the length of time it takes to fund projects and the rapid rate the infection is wiping away people. And sometimes proposals are even not funded and denied.

Well, for those who have never lost a brother, a sister, a child or a relative may not know how painful it is to die of the infection. Please, Fund HIV/AIDS project.

Please, round 5 be launched.

Tcharbuahbokengo Nfinn

The Federation of Environment and Ecological Diverstity for

[Mod. organization name incomplete in incoming email]

Email: feedar97@yahoo.com

Large-scale projects
Priscilla Mnganya
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I am trying to think of a better way of utilizing the Funds, which will have a positive and measurable impact on the ground rather than directing the money into small projects which might not reach the people in need.

My suggestion is that the Global Fund should consider channelling the funds into big projects such as spraying the environment as part of prevention of malaria rather than directing the money into small projects.

Thank you

Priscilla Mnganya
Email: pmnganya@sardc.net

The importance of TB
Maria van der Linde
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[further to the posting from Charles Geshekter last week...]

From Peru, we want to show our support to your comments and reinforce that the scheme of TB treatment you mentioned (DOTS), is a serious necessity that must be supported by all the organizations contributing to the fight against the TB in Africa.

Estimado Dr. Ch. Geshekter

Desde el Perú queremos manifestarle nuestro apoyo y reforzamiento que el esquema de tratamiento mencionado por Ud. y en modalidad de DOTS, seria una necesidad que debe ser apoyado por todas las entidades comprometidos con la lucha contra la TB en Africa.

Maria van der Linde
Email: mariamsc2001@yahoo.es