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ABSTRACT The Global Fund has almost completely withdrawn from funding programs in the Russian Federation. This has had an adverse effect on services to people who inject drugs, sex workers, and men who have sex with men. There is some evidence that efforts to empower these communities are meeting with some success. In the absence of a transition plan, discussions continue among NGOs and communities concerning how to do more with less.

ABSTRACT Delays in signing the framework agreement forced The Global Fund to extend existing grants to Pakistan to ensure that disbursements and services were not interrupted. Sources at the Fund informed GFO that the agreement would be signed the week of 22 February.

ABSTRACT All four PRs in Cambodia established separate structures parallel to national ones to manage procurement and M&E functions within Global Fund grants. According to the OIG, this goes against the intention of core Global Fund principles that call for the use and strengthening of national systems.

ABSTRACT An OIG audit found significant issues with the performance of the Société Générale Haitienne de Banque, a non-profit foundation which has served as the PR for all but one of the Global Fund grants in Haiti.

ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General says that marked progress has been made in the past year in the systemic fraud case involving Global Fund and other grants in Uganda.

ABSTRACT An audit conducted by the Office of the Inspector General on the implementation of Global Fund grants in the Philippines has documented numerous systems weaknesses, accounting irregularities and unauthorised expenditures on the part of one principal recipient, the Tropical Diseases Foundation. The Foundation has been removed as PR.

ABSTRACT As of 31 March 2008, the recently completed Round 1 grant had provided prevention services to 214,103 people who inject drugs. This is one of the results described in a report released by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. The grant exceeded the vast majority of its targets.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund recently released a “Guidance Paper on CCM Oversight.”

ABSTRACT The Global Fund launched Round 9 on October 1, just seven months after the launch of Round 8. However, in marked contrast to when Round 8 was launched, the Fund currently does not have any money to pay for Round 9 grants.

ABSTRACT An analysis conducted by GFO shows that half of all countries that are eligible to receive Global Fund grants currently provide ARV treatment to less than 25% of those that need it, and/or have at least 25,000 people who need ARV treatment but are not receiving it.